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INDEX 


TO   THS 


ANNUAL  REPORTS  OF  THE  COMMISSION  TO 
THE  FIVE  CIVILIZED  TRIBES 


FOR    THE 


YEARS  1894  TO  1905, 

INCLUSIVE. 


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DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  INTERIOR. 
COMMISSION  TO  THE  FIVE  CIVILIZED  TRIBES. 


INDEX 


TO   TH2 


ANNUAL  REPORTS  OF  THE  COMMISSION  TO 
f  THE  FIVE  CIVILIZED  TRIBES 


FOR    THE 


YEARS  1894  TO  1905, 

INCLUSIVE. 


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1906. 


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TOPICAL  INDEX  TO  TWELVE  ANNUAL  REPORTS  OF  COMMISSION  TO 
THE  FIVE  CIVILIZED  TRIBES, 


Abolition  of  Commission: 

1904 7 

1905 

Abolition  of  slavery: 

1894 

By  Cherokees— 

1899 

1901 

By  Choctaws— 

1894 

Abolition  of  tribal  courts,  Cherokee  Na 
tion: 

1900 

Acceptance  of  patents  by  allottees: 

1904 

Acknowledgment  of  service,  contest 
cases: 

1902 

Act  of  May  17,  1882,  provisions  affecting 
Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1894 

Act  of  March  1,  1889,  establishing  United 
States  court  in  Indian  Territory: 

1899 

Act  of  May  2, 1890,  extending  jurisdiction 
of  United  States  court  in  Indian  Terri 
tory: 

1899 

1901 

Act  of  March  3,  1891,  provision  for  pay 
ment  of  funds  to  Choctaw  freedmen: 

1894 

Act  of  March  3,  1893: 

1897 

1899.. 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Duties  of  Commission  under— 

1900 

Act  of  August  15,  1894,  adoption  of  Chick 
asaw  freedmen: 

1894 

Act  of  March  2, 1895,  provision  for  survey: 

1899 

Act  of  March  18, 1895,  extension  of  juris 
diction  of  United  States  court: 

1899 

Act  of  June  10,  1896: 

Applications  for  enrollment  under — 

1895 

1898 

1902 


Page. 

10,123 

5 

28,46 

167 
186 

24 


43 
194 

157 

38 
163 


164 
183 


31 

97,98 
66 
55 
71 
52 

61,62 
57,58 


L'O 


164 


Act  of  June  10,  1896— Continued. 
Construction  of — 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Provisions  of— 

1896 

1899 

1901... 


Act  of  June  7,  1897: 

Claims  of  Mississippi  Choctaws— 

1897... 

Extending    jurisdiction    of    United 
States  court — 

1899 

1901 

Provisions  of— 

1897 

Provision      concerning      Mississippi 
Choctaws— 


Repealed  with  respect  to  proceedings 
of  Seminole  tribal  council— 
1897... 


1901. 
1902. 
1903. 
1904. 


Act  of  June  28,  1898: 

Commencement  of  allotment  under — 

1905 

Confirmation  of  Dunn  roll— 

1900 

Enrollment  of  Cherokee  citizens— 

1899 

Extension  of  jurisdiction  of   United 
States  court — 

1899 

1901 

Grazing  leases— 

1899 

Inadequacy  of— 

1901 

1902 

Leasing  of  land — 


1900. 
1901. 


Page. 

84,100 
68 
67 
73 
53 
63 
59 

3,84,86 
112 
131 


165 

184 


23 


16 


166 

185 

26 

10,60 
9 

81 
30 


THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TBIBES. 


Act  of  June  28,  1898—  Continue^.     v 
Opposition  +tK-i  c  ; 
••Y^  -  "  1898. 

Page. 
5 

Act  of  May  31,  1900—  Continued. 
Enrollment  of  citizens— 
1900  

Provisions  for  identification  of  Missis- 
sipp^  Choctaws 

Establishment  of  town  sites— 
1900 

1899 

18  77 

1901. 

Provisions  of  — 
1899 

9 

Memoranda  cases— 
1902  1  

Provisions  relating  to  enrollment  of 

Opinion  of  Attorney-General— 
1901 

1901  

22 

Provisions  relating  to  enrollment  — 

Section  3  not  to  apply  to  Choctaw  and 

1901  

Chickasaw  nations  — 
1901 

65  69 

Town  sites,  reservation  of— 
1902  

1902 

100 

Act  of  March  1,  1901: 

1903 

116 

1900.  .. 

1904 

112 

1901  

Section  13  not  to  apply  to  Cherokee 

1902  

1903 

1899 

58 

1904 

1900  

43 

Amendment  of  section  37  — 

1902 

109 

1902 

1903 

125 

1903.. 

1904 

121 

1904..  . 

Section  13  not  to  apply  to  Creek  Na 
tion  — 

Appraisement  of  improvements  — 
1902  

1899.   ..                           

65 

Construction  of  section  6  — 

1902  

79 

1904  

1903  

89 

Act  of  March  3,  1901: 

1904 

85 

1901 

Section  15  not  to  apply  to  Creek  Na 

1902 

tion  — 

1903. 

1900 

52 

1904  

1901 

53 

Act  of  February  28,  1902: 

1903  

Appeal  to  Supreme  Court  in  citizen- 

Effect  of— 
1903  

1890  

168 

Act  of  May  27,  1902: 

1001 

-107 

1902  

1903 

1904  

1900 

72 

Act  of  June  30,  1902,  Creek  agreement: 

1902  

1903  

1904  

1904  

74 

Act  of  July  1,  1902: 

Classification  of  lands— 

Delaware  lands— 
1903  

Act  of  March  1,  1899,  appropriation  for 

Ratification  of  Cherokee  agreement  — 
1902 

Commission's  work: 

1903  

1899  

69 

1900 

72 

1901  '  

88 

Act  of  March  3,  1903: 

1902  

69 

1903  

79 

1904  

75 

Establishment  of  town  sites  under  — 

Act  of  March  3,  1899,  appropriation   to 

1904  

begin  work  of  allotment: 

1905  

1899  

69 

Act  of  April  28  1904° 

Act  of  May  81,  1900: 

1900 

73 

Appointment  of  additional  judges— 
1904  .*  

1901  

89 

Additional  coal  segregation  — 

1902 

69 

1904        

1903 

79 

Act  of  April  21,  1904: 

1904 

75 

Repeal  of  provision  for  sale  of  residue 

Effect  on  enrollment— 
1901... 

13 

Creek  lands  — 
1905... 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TEIBES. 


Act  of  April  21,  1904— Continued.  Page. 

Sale  of  land  under — 

1904 123 

Act  of  March  3,  1905: 

Addition  to  Commission's  work— 

1905 6 

Enrollment  of  children— 

1905 30 

Enrollment  of  Choctaw  and  Chicka- 
saw  children — 

1905 19 

Enrollment  of  Seminole  children— 

1905 32 

Act  of  Cherokee  council: 

Appointing  commission  to  negotiate 
with  Dawes  Commission — 

1896 127 

1901 10 

Concerning  citizenship  rolls — 

1897 36 

Continuing  commission— 

1896 134 

Of    November    18,  1870,  concerning 
North  Carolina  Cherokees— 

1899 140 

1901 159 

Act  of  Chickasaw  council: 

Concerning  intermarriage — 

1896 72 

Protesting    against     ratification    of 
agreement— 

1896 119 

Providing  for  negotiations— 

1896 Ill 

Act  of  Choctaw  council: 

Creating   commission     to    negotiate 
with  Dawes  Commission — 

1896 98 

December  24,  1899— 

1899 96 

1901 115 

Forbidding  negotiations  with  United 
States— 

1895 67 

May  21, 1883,  affecting  Choctaw  freed- 
men — 

1894 29 

November  5,  1886,  defining  quantity 
of  blood  essential  to  citizenship — 

1899 99 

1901 118 

Providing  for  negotiations— 

1895 87 

Relative  to  intermarriage— 

1899 101 

1901 120 

Act  of  Creek  council: 

Authorizing  negotiations— 

1896 156 

May  17,  1885,   distribution  of   tribal 
funds — 

1899 158 

May   30,    1895,    creating    citizenship 
commission— 

1899 158 

1900 21 

1901...  177 


Act  of  Creek  council — Continued. 

October  26,  1899,  relating  to  citizen 
ship — 


1901 

Act  of  Seminole  council  providing  for 
establishment  of  town  sites: 

1899 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Act  of  Cherokee  council: 

Declared  void  by  the  Court  of  Claims- 


1901. 


1904  ............................... 

To  be  approved  by  President  — 

1900  ............................... 

Act  of  Congress,  relation  to  treaties: 

1894  ................................... 

Act  of  Creek  council,  to  be  approved  by 
President: 
1897  ................................... 

1900  ................................... 

1901  ................................... 

1902  ................................... 

1903  ...............................  '.... 

1904  ................................... 


Page. 


157 
176 


57 
111 

128 

128 


71 


131 
137 


Act  of  Seminole  council,  to  be  approved 
by  President: 
1897  ...................................  72 

Acts  of  tribal  council,  subject  to  Presi 
dential  approval: 
1896  ...................................         105 

1907  .................................  88,91,100 


1899 64,68 

1900 57 

1901 73,91 

1902 54,71 

1903 64,81 

1904 60,77 


Ada: 


Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur- 


1904 

1905 

Enrollment  of  children  at— 
1905 

Reservation  for  town  site  at— 
1901 

1903... 


Adair,  John  L.,  letter  of  Commission  to, 
September  16,  1896: 
1896 

Adams,  Richard  C.,  claims  of: 

1905 

Adams,  Wiley,  decision  of  Department, 
enrollment  case  of: 
1905 

Adams,  Lottie  B.,  opinion  of  Attorney- 
General,  enrollment  case  of: 
1901... 


'29 


20 


130 


42 


13 


208 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Adams,  Spencer  B.,  opinion  in  citizenship 
case  of  — 
Thomas  Brinnon  ct  ill.  — 

Page. 

Agreement  with  Cherokees—  Continued. 
Ratification  of  — 
1894 

Page. 
11 

1904  

130 

1896 

129  135 

Lula  B.  Trahern  — 

1899  

10 

1904                                                

131 

1900 

44 

B.  F.  Thompson— 

1901  

9 

1904                                  

132 

1902 

109 

Additional  judges  appropriation  for: 

1903 

125 

1904 

126 

1904 

121 

Addresses  by  Commission  at  — 
Atoka— 

Removal  of  intruders  — 
1894  

12 

1895                                                .  -- 

65 

Synopsis  of  — 

Hartshorn  e  — 

1894 

11 

1895                                         

65 

1896 

132 

Adjournment  not  subject  to  Presidential 

1899.. 

10 

approval' 

1900 

35 

1897                    

100 

Admission  card,  Cherokee  land  office: 
1903  

170 

Desired  by  freedmen  — 
1894 

Adopted  citizens,  Creek  Nation: 
1896     

146 

Refusal  of  Chickasaw  commissioners 

Adoption  of  Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1896  

121 

1894 

38 

Advance  royalty,  payment  of: 

1896  

114  117 

1897 

15 

1898                                                        ...   - 

19,33 

Agreement  with  Choctaws,  December  18, 

1899                                             

34,43 

1896: 

1897  

90 

1900                                  

61,70 

1901                             

76,86 

Agreement  with  Choctaws  and  Chicka- 

1902 

56  66 

saws' 

1903 

66  76 

April  23  1897— 

1904 

62  72 

1897 

11 

Affidavits  Commission  authorized  to  re 

1898 

26 

ceive: 

1899 

38 

1896  

83 

1900. 

65 

1897 

98 

1901 

81 

1899 

67 

1902 

61 

1900 

56 

1903 

71 

1901 

72 

1904 

67 

1902                                                      .... 

52 

Draft  of  — 

1903                                           

62 

1896 

100 

1904                         

58 

1901 

61  66 

Agents: 
Disbarment  of  — 

Failure  of  ratification  by  tribes— 
1898 

4 

1901  

103 

February  7  1901— 

1902 

115 

1901                                                       ] 

0  60  66 

1903  

167 

Julyl  1902— 

1904 

197  202 

1902 

88 

Rules  governing  recognition  of  — 

1903     

104 

1901  .... 

103 

1904 

100 

1902        

115 

July  1  1902  to  supersede  treaty  pro 

1903        

167 

visions— 

1904      

197,  202 

1902 

100 

Agreement: 

1903                                

116 

Concerning  Cherokee  Outlet  not  to  be 

1904        

112 

impaired— 
1894  

14 

Ratification  of— 
1896  98, 

115,  121 

Of  April  8  1867   between  Cherokees 

1897 

17  21 

and  Delawares  — 

1898 

26 

1899.  . 

17 

1899 

9 

Agreement  with  Cherokees: 

1900                          

65 

Approved  July  1,  1902  — 

1901                       

65,70 

1902 

101 

1902 

100 

1903 

117 

1903 

116 

1904 

113 

1904 

112 

April  9,  1900— 
1900... 

11 

Ratification  of,  by  Choctaw  council  — 
1896.  .  . 

88 

THE   FIVE   CIVI 

Agreement  with  Choctaws  and  Chicka-    Page, 
saws  —  Continued. 
Supplemental— 
1902                                                                   9 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Agreement  with  Seminoles  —  Continued. 
Ratification  of  — 
1894  

7 

Page. 

13 

72 
79 
4 
88 
55 
82 
92 
88 

72 

9 
106 
98 
66 
55 
71 
10,52 
9,62 
58 

100 
68 
57 
73 
53 
63 
59 

75 

25 
37 
64 
80 
61 
71 
67 

13 

76 

39 
34 

56 

58 

118 
19 
33 
60 
76 
56 

1897 

Synopsis  of  — 
1894  

10 

1897 

1898. 

Agreement  with  Creeks: 
Amendment  of— 
1901 

9 

1899  

1901  

1902 

1903 

Amendment  of  section  8— 
1902. 

88 

1904 

Resolution  of  tribal  council  restrict 
ing— 

1903           

104 

1904  

100 

March  1,1901,  amendment  of 
2— 
1902  

section 
85 

Agreements: 
Ratification  of— 

1894 

1903  

101 

1896 

1904  

97 

1897 

March  1,  1901,  amendment  of 
37— 
1902 

section 

87 

1899.  .  .                .     . 

1900  

1901  

1903 

103 

1902  

1904 

99 

1903  

April  8,  1900— 
1900  

11 

1904  

To  supersede  conflicting  provisions 
of  the  act  of  June  7,  1897— 
1897  

Construction  of  section  5  — 

Failure  to  call  election  for 
tion  of— 
1898  

ratifica- 
6 

1899 

1900 

1901. 

June  30,  1902— 
1902  

84 

1903  

1903  

100 

Agricultural  lease: 
Form  of— 
1900  

1904  

96 

March  (April)  8,  1900— 
1900 

45 

Termination  of— 
1898 

Objection  to— 
1896  

152 

Ratification  of— 
1894  9 

1900 

1899  

9,45,65 

1900  

53 

1901 

9 

1904  

1902 

80  84  88 

Alabama; 
Notice  of  allotment  to  be  published 
in— 

1898 

1903 

90  100  104 

1904 

86  96  100 

Rejection  of  — 
1897  

..  59,63,68 

Rejection  of,  by  principal  chief— 
1898                                                                   4 

Reservation  for  town  site  at  — 
1901  

Supplemental— 
1902 

9 

1903  

Alexander,  G.  A.: 
Letter  to  Commission,  September  27, 
1897— 
1897 

Agreement  with  Seminoles: 
Classification  of  lands  — 
1899 

22 

December  16,  1897— 
1897 

77 

Letter  of  Commission,  to  October  12, 
1897— 
1897  

October  7,  1899— 
1900 

54 

Alienation  of  land: 
1896 

1901 

59 

1902 

83 

1898 

1903 

99 

1899 

1904 

89 

1900              .                    

Synopsis  of  — 
1894... 

13 

1901 

1902... 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Alienation  of  land—  Continued. 
1903 

Page. 
66 

Alienation  of  land—  Continued. 
For  town-site  purposes  at  — 

Page. 

1904                           

62 

Henryetta  — 

Act  of  April  21,  1904— 

1904.  ... 

29 

1904 

123 

Holdenville 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1904  

29 

1900 

36 

Indianola  — 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  Nation  — 

1904 

29 

1896  

101 

Kinta— 

1902  

89 

1904  

29 

1903 

106 

Mill  Creek— 

1904 

102 

1904 

29 

1897 

12 

Morris  — 

1898            .     .  . 

29 

1904.           

29 

1899  

40 

Muskogee  — 

1900 

67 

1904 

29 

1901 

83 

Okemah  — 

1902 

63 

1904 

29 

1903 

73 

Okmulgee  — 

1904 

69 

1904.           ...      ...-. 

29 

Creek  Nation— 
1900  r  

51 

Oktaha— 
1904  

29 

1901 

52 

Olney  — 

1902 

73 

1904 

29 

1903 

83 

Paden  — 

1904 

79 

1904 

29 

Seminole  Nation— 
1903 

127 

Porter— 
1903... 

35 

1904                                 

123 

1904  

29 

For  town-site  purposes  — 
1903 

35 

Quinton— 
1904 

29 

1903  

126 

Sapulpa  — 

1904 

121 

1904 

29 

1905 

63 

Stuart  — 

For  town-site  purposes  — 

1904 

29 

Act  of  March  3,  1903— 
1904 

27 

Tulsa— 
1904  

29 

For  town-site  purposes  at— 
Ada— 

Weleetka— 
1904  

29 

1904                 

29 

Wetumka  — 

1904 

29 

1904           

29 

Allotment: 

Bixby— 
1904 

.            29 

Diagram  of— 
1899 

60 

Bristow  — 
1904 

*            29 

Of  pine  timber  — 
1905 

36 

Bokoshe— 
1904 

29 

Of  pine  timber,  Choctaw  Nation  — 
1904  

45 

Broken  Arrow— 
1903 

35 

Progress  of  Cherokee  Nation— 
1905  

39 

1904     .       .     .               

29 

Chase— 
1904  

29 

Allotment  blanks,  Choctaw  and  Chicka 
saw  nations,  form  of: 

Checotah— 
1904 

29 

Allotment  certificates* 

Chickasha  — 
1904                    

29 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1903  

175 

Coweta— 
1903 

35 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1902 

91 

1904 

29 

1903 

107,  191 

Depew  — 

1904                               

101 

1904 

-.'        29 

Delivery  of  to  Choctaws  — 

Dustin  (Spokogee)  — 

1904  

45 

1903  

35 

Issuance  of  — 

1904 

29 

1899 

19 

Eufaulii  — 

1901 

65 

1904... 

29 

1902  .  .  . 

102 

THE    FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


9 


A 1  lotment  certificates — Continued. 
Issuance  of — 

1903 

1904 

To  Choctaws — 

1905 

To  Seminoles — 

1897 

1899 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Allotment  contest: 
Brown  v.  Collins — 

1904 

Mayor  v.  Thompson— 

1904 

Paquin  v.  Davis — 

1904 

Posey  v.  Tucker — 

1904 

Shepherd  v.  Marshall— 

1904 

Allotment  contests: 

1903 

1905 

Adjudication  of — 

1904 

After  termination  of  Commission— 

1904 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1904 

Creek  Nation— 

1899 

1901 

1902 

Decision  of  Department  in — 
1902... 


1904 

Diagram  showing  disposition  of— 

1902 

Digest  of  decisions  in— 

1903 

1904 

Instituted  by  grafters— 

1905 

Regulations  governing— 

1899 

1901 

Seminole  Nation — 

1901 

1902 

Settlement  of— 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Settlement  of  Creek  Nation— 

1900 •. 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

To  be  determined  by  Commission— 

1896 

1897... 


Page. 

118 
114 


77 
'87 
54 
80 
90 


192 
193 

188 

189 

19 

52 
54 

48 
10 
39 

20 
40 
47 

126 
139 

188 

124 

157 
194 

45 

84 
100 

43 
47 

85 

101 

97 

46 
46 
73 
83 
79 

102 
12,51 


Allotment  contests— Continued.  Page. 

To  be  determined  by  Commission— 

1898 29 

1899 40,60 

1900 36,46,67 

1901 65,70,83 

1902  63,91,102 

1903 73,107,118 

1904 69,103 

Allotment  deed,  form  of: 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw— 

1904 53,54 

Creek— 

1902 162 

1903 168 

Allotment  office,  at  Okmulgee: 

1901 30 

Allotment  of  Delaware  land,  under  act  of 
April  21,  1904: 

1904 124 

Allotment  of  land: 

1899 18 

Adjacent  to  town  sites — 

1899 GO 

Appropriation  for— 

1898 7 

1899 69 

Authority  of  United  States  court  to 
compel — 
1897 *. 89 

Cherokee  Nation — 

1894 11 

1896 132 

1899 49 

1900 35 

1902 101 

1903 39, 117 

1904 32,113 

Validity  of— 

1904 124 

Chickasaw  Nation— 

1896 114 

1904 ; 46 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1894 10 

1896 97, 98, 99, 100, 117 

1897 11,22 

1898 27 

1899 39 

1900 66 

1901 65,82 

1902 62,89 

1903 72,105 

1904 41,68,100 

Commencement  under  Curtis  Act— 

1905 5 

Creek  Nation— 

1894 8 

1896 145,154,155 

1897 51 

1898 37 

1899 59 

1900 29,45 

1901 30,45 

1902 39,72,85 

1903 37,82,101 

1904 31,78,97 


10 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Allotment  of  land  —  Continued. 
Desired  by  Indians  — 
1894  

Page. 
14 

Allotment  of  land  —  Continued. 
Seminole  Nation  — 
1904  

Page. 
30  86 

Expense  of,  to  be  borne  by  the  United 

1905  

52 

States— 
1896 

103,  118 

Time  necessary  for— 
1896 

146 

1897                                    

14 

To  be  opposed  until  provisions  for  pay 

1898  ..                     

31 

ment  of  tribal  funds  is  made  — 

1899  i 

11,57,60 

1896  

117 

1900 

42  68 

To  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  Freed 

1901 

84 

men  — 

1902                           .              

65 

1896. 

101 

1903  

75 

1902  

89 

1904  

71 

1903  

105 

Freedmen  not  to  participate  in  — 

1904  

100 

1896 

117 

To  full  blood  Cherokees  — 

Manner  of  — 

1904 

39 

1896. 

146,  158 

To  Mississippi  Choctaws  — 

1899  "  

19 

1902. 

96 

1900  

10 

1903  

112 

1904 

8 

1904 

11  108 

Objections  to— 
1897 

61 

Allotment  plats: 
Preparation  of 

Opposition  incurred  by  Commission  — 

1902 

46 

1897            

91 

Showing  location  of  allotment  form 

Opposition  to,  by  full-bloods  — 
1905 

47 

of— 
1900 

32 

Progress  of  — 
1901 

30 

Allotment  record,  Cherokee  Nation: 
1903 

173 

1903 

36 

Allotment  selection  diagram  of  • 

1904 

30 

1899 

62 

1905                                              

34 

Allotments' 

Progress  of,  Creek  Nation  — 
1905          

50 

Equalization  of  Creek  Nation  — 
1897. 

51,52 

Provisions  of  Curtis  Act  — 
1898      

18 

Exempt  from  taxation  — 
1896  

118 

1899  

32,  166 

Incumbrance  of  Creek  Nation  — 

1900.  

59 

1899  

60 

1901 

75 

1902 

87 

1902 

55 

1903 

103 

1903 

65 

1904 

99 

1904 

61 

Leasing  of  Cherokee  — 

Provisions  of  act  of  March  3  1893  — 

1900 

42 

1897 

97 

Possession  of  guaranteed  allottees  — 

1899  

66 

1896  

118,120 

1900.                          

55 

Relinquishment  of  — 

1901  

71 

1902  

157,  161 

1902  

51 

Sale  of,  Creek  — 

1903 

61 

1902 

87 

1904 

57 

1903 

103 

Publication  of  notice  — 

1904 

99 

1898 

13 

Selection  of  — 

1899                                         

76 

For  convicts  — 

Right  to  make  application  for  — 

1899  

60 

1902           

157 

1901  

65,70 

Rules  and  regulations  governing  — 

1902 

87  100 

1903 

41 

1903  

103,  116 

1904 

99  112 

1899 

83  84 

For  incompetents  — 

1901 

98  99 

1899  

60,  82 

1901               

65,  70,  97 

1894 

13 

1902          

87,100 

1897 

77 

1903  

103,  116 

1899 

87 

1904  

99,  112 

1901  

31,54 

For  minors  — 

1902 

80 

1899  

60 

1903... 

36,90 

1901... 

65.70 

THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


11 


Allotments— Continued.  Page. 

Selection  of— 
For  minors — 

1902 87,100 

1903 103,116 

1904 99,112 

For  orphans— 

1899 82 

1901 97 

For  prisoners — 

1899 60,82 

1901 65,70,97 

1902 87,100 

1903 103,116 

1904 99, 112 

Taxation  of,  Creek  Nation — 

1899 60 

Amendment: 

Of  agreement,  February  7,  1901— 

1901 

Of  Creek  agreement — 

1901 

Of  Delaware  segregation— 

1904 

Of  rules  and  regulations  governing 
selection  and  leasing  of  land — 


1901. 


Of  section   2,   Creek  agreement,  ap 
proved  March  1,  1901— 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  section  8,  agreement  with  Creeks, 
approved  March  1,  1901 — 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  section  37,  Creek   agreement  ap 
proved  March  1,  1901— 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Amnesty  for  offending  Seminoles: 

1897 

Amos,  Jack,  et  al.,  decision   of    United 
States  court  in  citizenship  case  of: 

1898 

1899 

1901 

Annual  report,  printing  of: 

1894 

Annual  message: 
Of  Isparhecher— 

1897 

Of  Hon.  D.  H.  Johnson,  governor  of 
Chickasaw  Nation— 

1901 

Of  Hon.  Green  McCurtain,  principal 
chief  of  the  Choctaw  Nation— 

1901 

Annuity,  Mississippi   Choctaws    not    to 
share  in: 


60 
9 
171 

83,84 


85 

101 

97 


104 
100 


87 

103 

99 

72 


15 

77,92 
111 


1899. 


209 


215 


Answer  in  contest  cases: 

1899 , 

1901 , 

1902 

Antlers,  enrollment  of  children  at: 
1905... 


Page. 
85 
100 
112 

19 


Appeal: 

Allowed  persons  whose   names   are 
stricken  from  the  rolls — 

1897 100 

1899 68 

1900 57 

1901 73 

1902 54 

1903 65 

1904 60 

From  decision  of  United  States  court 
in  citizenship  cases — 

1899 69 

1900 72 

1901 88 

1902 69 

1903 79 

1904 75 

In  citizenship  cases — 

1899 9 

In   citizenship   cases,   time   allowed 
for— 
1896 83 

In  contest  cases— 

1899 21, 86 

1901 102 

1902 114,157 

1903 157 

Of  Chickasaw  freedmen  to  Supreme 
Court— 
1901 63 


Of  intermarried  Cherokees  to  Supreme 
Court— 
1905  ............................... 


26 


To  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs, 
contest  cases— 

1899  ...............................  82 

1901  ...............................  97 

To  Department  in  school  matters— 

1900  ...............................  40,52 

1901  ...............................  53 

1902  ...............................  79 

1903  ...............................  89 

1904  ...............................  85 

To  Indian  Office  and  Department  — 

1903  ...............................  165 

1904...  199 


To    Supreme    Court    in    citizenship 
cases— 

1898 3 

1899 168,187 

To  Supreme  Court  in  Delaware  case — 

1898 26 

1899 38 

1900 65 

1901 81 

1902 61,102 

1903 71 

1904. . .  67 


12 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Appeal— Continued.  Page. 

To  United  States  court  in  citizenship 
cases— 

1896 83 

1897 92,99 

1899 67 

1900 56 

1901 72 

1902 16,52 

1903 62 

1904 58 

Application  for  allotment: 
Cherokee  Nation— 

1903 172,173 

Form  of — 

1899 64 

Form  of,  Cherokee  Nation— 

1903 170 

Applications  for  enrollment: 
Classification  of — 

1905 25 

Under  act  of  June  10,  1896,  number 
of— 

1898 3 

Applications  for  citizenship: 

Act  of  June  10,  1896,  number  of— 

1895 87 

How  made— 

1895 86 

Time  allowed  for— 

1895 86 

Appointment: 

At  Ardmorefor  enrollment  of  Chicka- 


1901 12 

At  Ardmore  for  enrollment  of  inter 
married  whites — 

1899 15 

At  Atoka  for  enrollment  of  Choctaws 
and  Chickasaws — 

1901 13 

At  Atoka  for  identification  of  Missis 
sippi  Choctaws— 

1901 19 

At  Bartlesville    for    enrollment    of 
Cherokee  citizens— 

1901 23 

At  Bunch  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1901 23 

1902 30 

At  Campbell  for  enrollment  of  Chero- 
kees — 

1902 30 

At  Carthage  for  identification  of  Mis 
sissippi  Choctaws— 

1901 20 

1902 23 

At  Catoosa  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 30 

At  Charles  Thompson's  precinct  for 
enrollment  of  Cherokees — 

1902 30 

At     Checotah     for     enrollment     of 
Creeks— 
1902...  36 


Appointment— Continued.  F'age. 

At  Chelsea  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees — 
1901 23 

At  Choteau  for  enrollment  of  Chero- 


1902 30 

At  Claremore  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1901 23 

At   Conahatta    for   identification  of 
Mississippi  Choctaws — 

1902 23 

At  Cookson  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 30 

At  Decatur  for  identification  of  Mis 
sissippi  Choctaws— 

1901 20 

1902 23 

At  Edinburg  for  identification  of  Mis 
sissippi  Choctaws — 

1902 23 

At  Eufaula  for  enrollment  of  Creeks — 

1902 36 

At  Fairland  for  enrollment  of  Chero- 


1901 23 

At  Fawn   for   enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 30 

At  Flint  for  enrollment  of  Cherokees— 

1902 30 

At  Fort   Gibson   for    enrollment   of 
Cherokee  freedmen— 

1902 33 

At   Fort   Gibson   for  enrollment   of 
Cherokees — 

1901 23 

At   Gans   for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees — 

1902 30 

At  Garfield  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 30 

At  Goingsnake  Court  House  for  en 
rollment  of  Cherokees— 

1902 30 

At  Hays  for  identification  of  Missis 
sippi  Choctaws— 

1902 23 

At    Holdenville    for    enrollment   of 
Creeks— 

1902 36 

At  Kansas  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees — 

1902 30 

At  Marble  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees — 

1902 30 

At  Melvin  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

'    1902 30 

At  Meridian  for  identification  of  Mis 
sissippi  Choctaws— 

1901 20 

1902...  23 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TEIBES. 


13 


Appointment — Continued.  Page. 

At  Moodys  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 30 

At  Muldrow  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1901 23 

At  Muscogee  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kee  freedinen— 
1902 33 

[At  McLain  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 30 

At  Necdmore  for  enrollment  of  Cher 
okees — 

1902 30 

At  Nowata  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kee  citizens— 

1901 23 

At     Okmulgee     for    enrollment    of 
Creeks — 

1901 28 

At     Okmulgee     for     enrollment    of 
Creeks— 

1902 36 

At  Morse  for  enrollment  of  Creeks— 

1902 36 

At  Paulding  for  identification  of  Mis 
sissippi  Choctaws — 

1902 23 

At  Peggs  for  enrollment  of   Chero 
kees— 

1902 30 

At  Philadelphia  for  identification  of 
Mississippi  Choctaws— 

1902 24 

At  Proctor  for  enrollment  of  Creeks— 

1902 36 

At    Pryor   Creek   for  enrollment  of 
Cherokees — 

1901 23 

At  Remy  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 30 

At  Rose  for  enrollment  of  Cherokees— 

1902 30 

At  Salina  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees — 

1902 30 

At  Sallisaw  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1901 23 

At  Scale  for  identification  of  Missis 
sippi  Choctaws — 

1902 24 

At  Senora  for  enrollment  of  Creeks — 

1902 36 

At  South  McAlester  for  enrollment  of 
Choctaws— 

1901 12 

At  South  McAlester  for  enrollment  of 
intermarried  whites — 

1899 15 

At  Spavinaw  for  enrollment  of  Cher 
okees— 
1902...  30 


Appointment— Continued. 

At  Starvilla  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 

At  Stillwell  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees — 

1901 

At  Swimmer  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 

At  Tahlequah  for  enrollment  of  Chero- 


Page. 


1901 

At  Toles  for  identification  of  Missis 
sippi  Choctaws— 

1902 

At  Vian  for  enrollment  of  Cherokees— 

1902 

At  Vinita  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1901. 

At  Vinita  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kee  freedmen— 

1902 

At  Wauhillau  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees — 

1902 

At  Westville  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1901 

At     Wetumka    for    enrollment     of 
Creeks— 

1902 

At  Wewoka  for  enrollment  of  Semi- 
noles — 

1900 

1901 

At  Whitmire  for  enrollment  of  Chero 
kees— 

1902 

At  Zena  for  enrollment  of  Cherokees — 

1902 

For  enrollment  of  Creeks— 

1902 

Jn  Cherokee  Nation  for  enrollment  of 
citizens — 

1900 

1901 

1902 

In  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  Nations 
for  enrollment  of  citizens— 

1900 

In  Mississippi   for   identification   of 
Mississippi  Choctaws— 

1899 

Of  additional  Commissioners— 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  additional  judges,  act  of  April  28, 
1904— 
1904... 


21 


•23 


23 


12 


30 


36 


14 


10 


125 


14 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Appointment— Continued. 
Of  Cherokee  commission — 

1896 

Of  Cherokee  commission  to  negotiate 
with  Dawes  Commission— 

1899 

Of  Cherokee  committee  to  confer  with 
Dawes  Commission — 

1896 

Of  Chickasaw  commission  to  nego 
tiate  with  Dawes  Commission— 

1896 

Of  Chickasaw  commission  to  protest 
against  ratification  of  proposed 
agreement — 

1896 ' 

Of  citizenship  commission,  Creek  Na 
tion— 


1901. 


Of  commission  of  Chickasaw  Nation 
to  negotiate  with  Dawes  Commis 
sion— 

1896 

Of  Commission  to  the  Five  Civilized 
Tribes,  provisions  for — 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1931 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  commission  to  negotiate  with 
Dawes  Commission — 

1901 

Of  Commissioner  to  succeed  Commis 
sion  to  Five  Civilized  Tribes— 

1905 

Of  committee  by  Chickasaw  Nation  to 
negotiate  with  Dawes  Commission— 

1895 

Of  committee  by  Creek  Nation — 

1896 

Of  committee  by  Creek  Nation  to  con 
fer  with  Commission — 

1894 

Of  committee  to  determine  Choctaw 
and  Chickasaw  citizenship— 

1894 

Of  committee  to  determine  Creek  cit 
izenship — 

1894 

Of  committee  to  represent  Choctaw 
freedmen — 

1894 

Of  Creek  commission — 

1896 

Of  Creek  commission  to  negotiate 
with  Dawes  Commission — 

1899 

Of  Seminole  commission  to  negotiate 
with  Dawes  Commission— 

1897 

Of  town-site  commission — 


Page. 

128 

9 
127 
117 

119 

158 
177 

111,  117 

97 
66 
55 
71 
51 
61 
57 

10 

8 

66 
156 

8 
9 
9 

23 
143 

10 

71 

21 
34,61 

Appointment  —  Continued. 
Of  town-site  commission  — 
1900. 

Page. 

61  74 

1901  

77  90 

1902  

58  70 

1903  

68  80 

1904 

64  76 

Of   town  -site  commission, 
Nation  — 
1899. 

Cherokee 
R1 

Of  town-site  commission,  Choctaw  and 
Chickasaw  nations— 
1897                                                              i* 

1898 

30 

1899.  . 

40 

1900  

67 

1901  

83 

1902  

64 

1903..  

74 

1904 

70 

Of   town-site  commission, 
Nation— 
1899  

Seminole 
89 

1901  

.  .                       57 

1902 

110 

1903 

128 

1904 

198 

Of  town-site  commissioners  — 
1901  fi4  fiQ 

1902  

84  97  105 

1903  

100  113  123 

1904  

...  .       96  109  119 

Of    town-site    committee, 
Nation— 
1900 

Cherokee 
37 

Appraisement  of  improvements 
Creek  Nation  — 
1897  

52 

1898......  

37 

1899  

...  .                    45 

1902  

41 

1903 

38 

In  town  sites— 
1899 

61 

Made  by  intruders  — 
1898. 

16 

1899  

31 

1900  

58 

1901 

74 

1902 

54 

1903 

64 

1904  

60 

On  town  lots— 
1898  

21 

1899 

35 

1900 

62  74 

1901  .  . 

78  90 

1902  

58  70 

1903  

68,  80 

1904 

64  76 

Appraisement  of  land: 
1899 

10  50 

1901                  

32 

1903  

31 

1904 

g 

Adjacent  to  town  site— 
1899... 

20,60 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


15 


Appraisement  of  land-Continued.  Page. 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1900 28,35 

1902 101 

1903 42, 117 

1904 113 

Chickasaw  Nation — 

1896 121 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1896 101, 103 

1897 11 

1898 28 

1899 24,139 

1900 26,66 

1901 82 

1902 63,89 

1903 50, 73, 105 

1904 69,101 

Creek  Nation — 

1897 52 

1898 37 

1899 46,59 

1900 28,45 

1901 45 

1902 72,85 

1903 82,101 

1904 78,97 

Expense  of — 

1896 103 

1897 14 

1898 31 

1900 68 

1901 84 

1902 65 

1903 75 

1904 71 

Form  of  field  record — 

1899 86,88 

Progress  of— 

1902 43 

Rules  and  regulations  governing— 

1901 108 

Seminole  Nation — 

1897 77 

1899 22,87 

1900 26 

1901 31,64 

1902 41,80 

1903 90 

1904 86 

Representatives     of     Choctaw     and 
Chickasaw  nations,  to  assist  in — 

1897 12 

1898 28 

1899 39 

1900 66 

1901 82 

1902 63 

1903 73 

1904 69 

To  foe  made  under  direction  of  Secre 
tary  of  the  Interior — 

1897 52 

Appraisement  of  town  lots: 

1897 53 

1898 21 

1899 35, 51, 62 


Appraisement  of  town  lots— Continued.        Page. 

1900 37, 47, 62, 74 

1901 47,78,90 

1902 58,70,74 

1903 68, 80, 84 

1904 64,76,80 

Chickasaw  Nation — 

1896 118 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1896 102 

1897 13 

1898 30 

1899 41 

1900 69 

1901 64,' 68, 84 

1902 64 

1903 74 

1904 70 

Appraisement  of  town  sites: 

1904 122 

Appropriation  for— 

1900 73 

1901 89 

1902 70, 84 

1903 80,100,126 

1904 76,  96 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1902 97 

1903 113 

1904 109 

Appraisement  parties,  personnel  of: 

1901 108 

Appropriation: 

Act  of  April  21,  1904— 

1904 10 

By  Choctaw  council  for  removal  of 
Mississippi  Choctaws  from  Indian 
Territory— 
1899 80 

For  additional  judges— 

1904 125 

For  Cherokee  advocate— 

1899 57 

For  Cherokee  insane  asylum — 

1900 41 

For  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  freed- 
men— 
1894 38 

For  citizenship  court — 

1903 126 

1904 122 

For  clerical  assistance — 

1901 91 

1902 71,84 

1903 81,100 

1904 77, 95, 124 

For  Commission — 

1899 9 

1902 71, 83 

1903 81, 99, 100, 125 

1904 77, 95, 121 

For  Commission's  work — 

1897 97,98,99 

1899 66,67,68 

1900 55,56,57 

1901 71, 72, 73 

1902 51,52,53 


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THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Appropriation  —  Continued. 
For  Commission's  work  — 
1903                                                       6 

Page. 
1  62,63 

Arbitrary  allotments: 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1902 

Page. 
90 

1904                                              7,  10,  5 

7,  58,  59 

1903 

106 

1905                              

5 

1904 

102 

For  disbursing  agent  — 
1899  

69 

Creek  Nation— 
1902 

39 

1900 

73 

To  Cherokees 

1901                                           

89 

1905 

48 

1902                                    

69,84 

To  excessive  holders 

1903                         79, 

100,  125 

1902 

91 

1904                  75 

,  95,  121 

1903 

107 

For  establishing  town  sites  — 

1904 

103 

1903 

126 

1904                                                

121,  124 

Interpreters— 
1902                           

84 

poses  at  — 
1904 

29 

1903                                  

100,  121 

1905 

63 

1904 

95  121 

For  removal  of  Mississippi  Choctaws 

1901 

12 

to  Indian  Territory— 
1904 

19 

Enrollment  of  children  at  — 
1905 

19 

For  removal  of  intruders— 
1902                                         

84 

Enrollment  of   intermarried   whites 
at 

1903                                    

100 

1899 

15 

1904                                

96 

Removal  of  Chickasaw  land  office  at 

For  school    purposes,   Seminole   Na 

1905  

38 

tion  — 
1897 

77 

Reservation  for  town  site  at— 
1896 

110 

1899 

88 

Area' 

1901 

55 

Of  Five  Tribes  — 

1902 

81 

1905 

34 

1903                                             

91 

Of  Indian  Territory  — 

1904                                        

87,88 

1899  

160 

For  stenographers  — 

1901  

43  179 

1903                               

126 

Of  town  sites,  Creek  Nation  — 

1904                                 

121 

1899  

61 

For  survey  of  town  sites  — 
1900  

73 

Arkansas: 
Notice  of  allotment  to  be  published 

1901  

89 

in— 

1902 

70 

1898 

13 

1903 

80 

1899 

76 

1904  

76,  124 

Arkansas  law: 

Necessary  to  begin  work  for   allot 
ments— 
1898 

7 

Extended  over  Choctaw  and  Chicka 
saw  nations  — 
1896  

104 

Necessary  for  — 

1897  

16 

1899 

29 

1898  

34 

1899 

43 

1900 

70 

1901 

86 

1899 

50 

1902 

66 

1900 

39 

1903  

76 

Of  Creek  patents  by  Secretary  of  the 

1904  , 

72 

Interior  — 
1900 

48 

Extended  over  Indian  Territory— 
1897  88 

,91,100 

1901  .... 

49 

1898  

8,27 

1902 

76 

1899 

68 

1903 

86 

1900 

57 

1904 

82 

1901 

73 

Of  leases  by  Secretary  of  the  Interior  — 

1902            .                  .     . 

53 

1900 

31 

1903          

63 

Arapaho  Indians,  right  to  locate  on  leased 

1904  

59,  126 

district: 
1894  

51 

To  govern  incorporation  of  towns— 

1898 

•>o 

Arbitration  of  claims: 

1899 

34 

1896... 

105 

1900... 

61 

Arkansas  law— Continued. 

To  govern  incorporation  of  towns— 

1901 77 

1902 57 

1903 67 

1904 63 

.rmstrong,  Frank  C.: 

Appointment  as  Commissioner— 

1895 59 

1900 7 

\  Letter  to  chiefs  of  Five  Tribes,  June 
5,  1895— 

1895 62 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosley,  September  28, 
1895— 

1895 66 

Letter  to  principal  chief  Creek  Nation, 
October  4,  1895— 

1895 67 

Letter  to  Olosachubbee,  October  30, 
1895— 

1895 67 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner,  July  1, 
1896- 

1896 93 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner,  July  10, 
1896— 

1896 95 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosley,  July  10,  1896— 

1896 109, 110 

Letter  to  Samuel  H.  Mayes,  July  10, 
1896— 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 
Page. 


1896 125 

Letter  to  Isparhecher,  July  10, 1896— 

1896 141 

Letter  to  D.  W.  Bushyhead,  September 
16,  1896— 

1896 130 

Letter  to  John  L.  Adair,  September  16, 
1896— 

1896 130 

Letter  to  John   F.   Brown,  July  10, 
1896- 

1896 169 

Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Septem 
ber  14,  1896— 

1896 145 

'Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Septem 
ber  26,  1896— 

1896 146 

Letter  to   R.  M.  Harris,  October  23, 
1896— 

1896 114 

Letter  of  Green  McCurtain  to,  October 
15,  1896— 

1896 96 

Letter  to  Green  McCurtain,  October 
25,  1896— 

1896 97 

Letter  of  Green  McCurtain  to,  October 
27,  1896— 

1896 97 

Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Decem 
ber  15,  1896— 

1896 161 

Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Decem 
ber  16,  1896— 
1896 163 

15013—00 2 


Armstrong,  Frank  C.— Continued. 

Letter  to  Cherokee  commission,  De 
cember  17,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Cherokee  commission,  De 
cember  17,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Cherokee  commission,  De 
cember  18, 1896— 

1896 

Letter    to    Hon.    Green   McCurtain, 
March  23,  1897— 

1897 

Telegram   to   Capt.    J.  S.  Standley, 
March  26,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  Green  McCurtain,  June  28, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  P.  Porter,  March  27,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  Jno.  F.  Brown,  March  27, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  S.  H.  Mayes,  March  27, 1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  S.  H.  Mayes,  April  8,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  of  Jno.  F.  Brown  to,  April  5, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  John    F.    Brown,   April  8, 


17 

Page. 
135 
136 
137 


1897. 


Letter  to  D.  W.  Bushyhead,  April  23, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  D.  W.  Bushyhead,  April  29, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  S.  H.  Mayes,  April  29,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  S.  H.  Mayes,  May  5,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  P.  Porter,  June  15,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  John  F.   Brown,  June  28, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  R.  M.  Harris,  June  28, 1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  Isparheeher,  June  28,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  S.  H.  Mayes,  June  28, 1897— 

1897 

Letter  of  Green  McCurtain  to,  July  17, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  of  Green  McCurtain  to,  July  30, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  Green  McCurtain,  August  4, 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  S.  H.  Mayes,  September  8, 
1897— 


18 
47 

71 

29 
30 

71 

71 
31 

32 
32 
32 
47 

73 
24 
48 
35 

19 

iy 

19 
37 


18 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Armstrong,  Frank  C.—  Continued. 
Letter  to  chiefs  of  five  tribes  — 

Page. 

Asphalt  royalty,  disposition  of—  Cont'd. 
1901 

Page. 

85 

1896                                              

84 

1902 

66 

Armstrong  Orphan  Academy,  reservation 

1903  . 

75 

for- 

1904  

71 

1896 

101 

Assistant  Attorney-General' 

1897 

11 

Opinion    as    to    allotment    of     full 

1898 

27 

bloods 

1899 

39 

1905 

36 

1900                                       

66 

Opinion  as  to  sale  of  Delaware  im 

1901                                    

82 

provements  — 

1902        ...                      

62,92 

1905 

42 

1903                     

72,  108 

Opinion  in  citizenship  case  of  — 

1904  

68,  101 

Clay  McCoy  — 

Asbury   Grissom  v.,  decision  of  Commis 

1905  

14 

sion  in  contest  case  of: 
1901 

42 

Mary  Elizabeth  Martin— 
1905 

13 

Asphalt: 
Additional  segregation  of  — 

Joe  and  Dillard  Perry— 
1905  

16 

1904                                 -             -     . 

126 

William  C  Thompson  — 

Disposition  of  — 

1905 

16 

1897                                    

14 

Benjamin  J  Vaughn 

1898                    

°2 

1905 

14 

1899               

42 

Lula  West— 

1900             

69 

1905  ..  . 

15 

1901          

85 

Atkins  J.  D.  C. 

1902  

65 

Report  concerning  Chickasaw  freed- 

1903       

75 

men  — 

1904  •.  

71 

1894  

40,45 

Disposition  of,  revenue  from— 
1896  

103 

Attendance  of  witnesses,  Commission  au 
thorized  to  compel: 

Reservation  of  — 

1898  

25 

1898 

18 

1899 

37 

1899 

32 

1900 

64 

1900 

59 

1901 

80 

1901 

75 

1902 

60 

1902 

55  92 

1903 

70 

1903                   

65  108 

1904 

66 

1904 

61  110 

Atoka' 

Reservation  of  Choctaw  and  Chicka- 
saw  nations  — 

Citizens  addressed  by  Commission  at  — 
1895             

65 

1897  .             

11 

Conference  at  — 

1904  

68 

1896         

110 

Segregation  of  — 

1897  

7 

1903  

33 

Conference  with  Choc  taws  and  Chick- 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1902 

98 

asaws  at  — 
1897 

90 

1903  

114 

Enrollment  of  children  at  — 

Asphalt  land' 

1905 

19 

Disposition  of— 
1897 

23 

Enrollment  of  Choctaws  and  Chicka- 
saws  at  — 

1904 

124 

1900                                     

14 

Regulations  for  leasing  — 

1901            

13 

1898....  

19 

Establishment  of  land  office  at  — 

1899  

33 

1903  

51 

1900  

60 

Identification  of  Mississippi  Choctaw.s 

1901  

76 

at— 

1902 

56 

1901 

19 

1903 

66 

Suggested   as   place   for    conference 

1904 

62 

with  Choctaws  — 

Asphalt  lands,  reservation  of* 

1897            

7 

18%  

101 

Atoka  agreement: 

Asphalt  royalty  disposition  of' 

1897 

11 

1897 

15 

1898 

27 

1898 

32 

1899 

38 

1899  .  . 

42 

1900 

65 

1900-,. 

69 

1901.., 

81 

THE   FIV 

Uoka  agreement—  Continued. 
1902 

E   CIV1 

Page. 
61 
71 
67 

90 
10,60 
9 

6,26 
38 
65 
81 
61 
71 
67 

112 

103 
115 
167 
197,  202 

35 

11 
15 

86 
102 
114,  158 

103 
115 
167 
197,  202 

94 
133 
139 

44 
44 
125 

35 
44,58 
71 
87 
68 
78 
74 

125 

25 
204 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Attorney-General—Continued.                       Pa 
Opinion  as  to  rights  of   Chickasaw 
freedmen  to  allotments— 
1901 

19 

fe'e. 
206 
31 
74 
43 
166 

63 

95 
111 

107 

103 
lift 
167 
197 

87 

13 
30 
41 
68 
84 
64 
74 
70 

97 
66 
Bf 

71 
51 
61 
57 

100 
'23 
167 
,63 
,79 

,  59 

,6'J 
,65 

•7 

23 
96 

63 
79 
59 
6U 
65 

1903 

1904                  .       .  . 

Inadequacy  of  — 
1897  

Opinion  as  to  right  of  Secretary  to  ap 
prove  leases— 
1900 

1901  

1902 

Opinion  of,  concerning  Cherokee  citi 
zenship  — 

1895..   . 

Ratification  of— 
1898  

1899. 

Opinion    concerning    resolution    of 
August  28,  1903— 
1904 

1900            

1901  

1902  

Opinion  of  enrollment  of  Cherokee 
freedmen— 
1904 

1903  

1904  

Lttorneys: 
Appointment  of,  to  represent  Chicka 
saw  Nation  — 
1896 

To  file  suit  against  Chickasaw  freed 
men  — 
1901. 

To  file  suit  for  Chickasaw  freedmen  — 
1902... 

Disbarment  of  — 
1901  

1903  

1902.. 

1904 

1903  

Attorney's  oath,  form  of: 
1901 

1904  

For  Chickasaw  freedmen— 
1894  

1902  

1903 

For  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations, 
delay  caused  by  protests  of— 
r!902  

1904  

Attitude  of  Indians: 
1895  

1904 

Auction,  town  lots  to  be  sold  at: 
1897  

In  contest  cases  — 
1899. 

1898 

1901 

1899 

1902 

1900 

Rules  governing  recognition  of— 
1901. 

1901  

1902 

1902...  . 

1903 

1903     ..  . 

1904 

1904. 

Authority  of  Commission: 
Act  of  March  3,  1893— 
1897 

ittorneys  fees: 
Cherokee  freedmen  case  — 
1901  

1899 

1903  

1900 

1904  

1901 

John  F.  Hemphill— 
1900  

1902 

1903 

Wm.  T.  Hutchings— 
1900 

1904 

Enrollment  of  citizens  — 
1897          98 

J.  Hale  Sypher— 
1904  

1898      

Payment  of  — 

1898 

1899            36  67  68 

1900                                                         56  57 

1899  

1901                                                         72  73 

1900  

1902  52,53 
1903                                                         62  63 

1901  

1902  

1904                                                         57  59 

1903  

Explained  to  chief  executives  of  Five 
Tribes  — 
1894      

1904  

To  be  fixed  by  Court  of  Claims— 
1904 

To  employ  assistance  — 
1898  

ttorney-General  : 
Opinion   as  to   return   of  Cherokee 
freedmen  to  Cherokee  Nation  — 
1904  

1899  

1900.             

1901 

Opinion   as   to   rights   of    Cherokee 
freedmen— 
1901... 

1902  

1903  

1904... 

20 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Authority  of  Commission— Continued. 
To  enroll  Cherokee  freedmen— 

1899 

1901 

1903 

1904 

Auxiliary    Cherokee    land    office  estab 
lished  at  Muskogee: 

1905 

Ayers,  Mattie  J.,  decision   of   Supreme 
Court  in  citizenship  case  of: 


1901 

Ayers,    Jacob   S.,    decision   of   Supreme 
Court  in  citizenship  case  of: 

1899 

1901 

Ayers,  Stephen  G.,  decision  of  Supreme 
,    Court  in  citizenship  case  of: 


1901 

Aylesworth,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903. 

Aylesworth,  A.  L.: 

Letter  of  D.  W.  Bushyhead,  Novem 
ber  9,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  R.  M.  Harris,  December  22, 
1897— 

1897 

Bacone  University,  reservation  for: 

1897 

Baking   powder,  amount   allowed  field 
parties: 

1901 

Baptist  Mission  School,  reservation  for: 

1899 

1902... 


1904 

Barrows,  D.  B.,  memorial    of   Choctaw 
freedmen: 

1894 

Bartles,  Jacob  H.,  excessive  holding  of: 

1904 

Bartlesville: 

Alienation  of  land  for  town  site  pur 
poses  at— 

1905 

Enrollment  of  Cherokees  at— 

1900 

1901 

Beams  v.  Taylor,  contest  case  of: 

1903 

Beans,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 
1901... 


Alienation  of  land  for  town  site  pur- 
.      poses  at — 

1905 

Reservation  for  town  site  at— 

1901 

1903 

Bell,  R.  S.: 

Reservation  for — 

1897 

1898... 


Page. 

70 

94 

132 

138 


47 


160 

188 


160 

188 


160 
188 

35 

42 

26 
52 

105 

54 
103 
119 
115 

32 
172 

63 

25 
23 

153 
106 

63 

39 
34 


Bell,  R.  S.— Continued. 
Reservation  for— 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Belt,  R.V.: 

Attorney  for  Chickasaw  freedmen— 

1894 

Memorial  of  Choctaw  freedmen — 

1894 

Memorial  of  Chickasaw  freedmen— 

1894 

Bender,  Joseph  P.: 

Investigation  of  Cherokee  accounts — 

1899 

Benge,  G.  W.: 

Letter  to  Secretary  of  the  Interior  re 
questing  removal  of  intruders — 

1897 

Bennett,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1900 

Bennington,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903 

Berwyn,  reservation  for  town  site  at. 

1896 

Bill  for  provision  for  title  to  town  lots: 

1895 

Birth,  form  of  proof: 

1901 

Birth  affidavits: 

1899 

Form  of — 

1899 

Births,  Creek  Nation: 

1904 

Births  and  deaths,  Creek  Nation: 

1903 

Birth  rate,  Cherokee  Nation: 

1902 

Bixby,  alienation  of  land  for  town  site 
purposes  at: 

1904 

1905 

Bixby,  Tarns,  appointed  Commissioner  to 
the  Five  Civilized  Tribes: 

1905 

Conference  with  Secretary  at  Wash 
ington — 

1897 

Letter  transmitting  annual  report  for 
1897— 

1897 

Letter  of  September  1, 1899,  transmit 
ting  annual  report — 

1899 

Letter  transmitting  annual  report  for 
1900— 

1900 

Letter  transmitting  annual  report— 

1902 

1903 

June  30, 1904— 

1904 

For  1905— 
1905... 


Page. 

39 
66 

82 
62,92 

72, 108 
68, 105 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


21 


Blackstone,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1901                 

Page. 
39 

Bonds,  issuance  of,  by  municipalities: 
1899  

Page. 

58 

1903 

34 

1900 

41 

Blind  asylum  reservation  for  at  Fort  Gib 

1902 

98 

son* 

1903  . 

114 

1899 

55 

1904.. 

110 

Blind  school,  reservation  for: 
1900  

41 

Boswell,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1903  

34 

Bliss,  C.M.: 
Letter   of   commission    to,  June    15, 

1897 

Boyd,  Allen  R.,  appointment  as  secretary 
of  Commission  : 
1895 

59 

1897 

34 

Boyd,  R  L  • 

Letter  of  July  22,  1897— 
1897                                              .... 

84 

Letter  to  Commission  — 

18%  .                          . 

117 

Bloomfield  Academy,  reservation  for: 
1897  

11 

Memorial  to  Congress  — 
1897  

24 

1898  

27 

Boynton,  segregation  of  land  for  town- 

1899 

39 

site  purposes  at' 

1900 

06 

1905 

64 

1901 

82 

Bread  amount  allowed  field  parties* 

1902 

62,92 

1901                                                     

105 

1903                           

72,  107 

Brennon  Thomas* 

1904            

68,104 

Decision  in  enrollment  case  — 

Bloomfield  cemetery,  reservation  for: 

1905. 

12 

1898 

119 

Bloomfield  Female  Seminary,  reservation 
for: 

ment  of— 
1904  

130 

1896 

119 

Bribery 

Blue,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1903. 

34 

Jurisdiction  of  United  States  court— 
1898 

16 

Board  of  education,  session  of,  at  Tushka- 

1899 

31  64 

homa: 

1900 

58 

1895  

62 

1901 

74 

•Boggy  Depot,  establishment  of  land  of 

1902 

54 

fice  at: 

1903  

64 

1899  „  

109 

1904  

60 

1901  

128 

Jurisdiction  of  United   States  court 

Bokoshe: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at  — 

over— 
In  Seminole  Nation— 
1897  

78 

1904 

29 

1899 

88 

1905 

63 

1901 

55 

Enrollment  of  children  at  — 

1902 

82 

1905  

20 

1903 

92 

Boley,  alienation    of  land  for  town-site 

1904. 

88 

purposes  at: 
1905 

To  be  tried  in  United  States  court— 
1896 

104 

Bond: 

Required  of  mining  trustees  — 
1897 

15 

Bristow: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at  — 

1898 

32 

1904 

29 

1899. 

42 

1905 

63  64 

1900  

69 

Enrollment  of  children  at  — 

1901  

85 

1905 

30 

1902  

65 

1903  

75 

1899 

61 

1904 

71 

Required  of  officer  disbursing  tribal 

1900 

46 

funds— 
1896  

105 

Broken   Arrow,  alienation   of   land   for 

Required  of  Seminole  town-site  com 

1903  

35 

missioner  — 

1904  

29 

1899  

90 

1905 

63 

1901. 

58 

1902  

111 

1903  

129 

1899 

89 

1904  

129 

1901... 

57 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Brown,  A.  J.,  appointed  Seminole  town- 
site  commissioner  —  Continued. 

Page. 

Burden  of  proof  in  contest  cases: 
1903  

Page. 
157 

1902  

112 

1903  

128 

1904  

128 

1894 

Brown,  John  F.: 
Letter  of  Commission  to  — 

Butter,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 
1901  .  . 

105 

July  10,  1896— 
1896                  

169 

Butler,  Marion,  letter  relative  to  claims  of 

July  28,  1894— 

Richard  C.  Adams: 
1905  

42 

August  8,  1896— 
1896 

170 

Bushyhead,  D.  W.: 
Appointed  Cherokee  Commissioner 

March  27  1897— 

1896  . 

127 

\            1897                               

71 

Letter  to  Commission  — 

April  5,  1897— 
1897                        

71 

September  4,  1896— 
1896  

127 

April  7,  1897— 
1897  

71 

September  12,  1896— 
1896  

126 

June  28,  1S97— 
1897 

73 

September  18,  1896— 
1896 

131 

December  4,  1897— 
1897 

74 

September  21,  1896— 
1896. 

131 

Letter  to  Commission- 
September  18  1897  — 

December  5,  1896— 
1896  

133 

1897                        

73 

December  16,  1896  — 

December  10  1897  — 

1896  

133 

1897               

74 

December  17,  1896  — 

Letter  to  Henry  L.  Dawes,  September 

1896  

135 

5,  1896— 
1896 

170 

December  18,  1896— 
1896 

137 

Brown,  Roland: 
Letter  to  Commission  — 

April  23,  1897— 
1897  

31 

December  16,  ft96— 
1896 

152 

April  26,  1897— 
1897     ;..... 

31 

December  16,  1896— 
1896 

161 

Letter  of  Commission  to  — 
September  16,  1896— 

December  18  1896  — 

1896  

130 

1896                                 

163 

Letter  to,  April  29,  1897— 

September  27  1897  — 

1897  

32 

'   1897                         

56 

Letter  to,  May  3,  1897— 

Brown  Isaiah  memorial  to  Congress: 

1897  

32 

1897                                      

24 

May  28,  1897— 

1897 

33 

Contest  case  of  — 
1902 

140 

October  28,  1897— 
1897                                      .     . 

38 

1904  

192 

November  9,  1897— 

Decision  of   Department  in    contest 

1897  

42 

case  of— 
1902 

48 

Bryant  Station,  reservation  for  town  site 
at: 

Brown  v  Tuttle  contest  case  of' 

1901  

39 

1903 

149 

1903 

35 

Browning,  O.  H.,  report  concerning  Choc- 
taw  and  Chickasaw  freedmen: 
1894 

42 

Byrd,  William  L.: 
Letters  to  Commission,  November  25, 
1896— 

1896                             

88,  116 

Buckner,  Mrs.  H.  F.,  reservation  for: 
1897  

52 

Letter  to  Commission  — 

Buffington,  T.  MM  et  al.  v.  Commission  en 
rollment  of  Cherokee  freedmen: 

Memorial  to  Congress— 
1897 

24 

1902  

119 

1903  

136 

1904  

142 

ISO'S 

59 

Bunch,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1900 

25 

Illness  of— 
1896               

144 

1901 

23 

Letter  to  chiefs  of  Five  Tribes  — 

1902... 

30 

1896  .  .  . 

84 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


23 


Cabaniss,  Thomas  B.— Continued.  Page. 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Moseley,  September  28, 
1895— 

1895 6G 

Letter  to  principal  chief  Creek  Na 
tion,  October  4, 1896— 

1895 67 

Letter  to  Olosachubbee,  October  30, 
1895— 

1895 67 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner,  July  1, 
1896— 

1896 93 

Letter  to  Isparhecher,  July  10,  1896— 

18% 141 

Letter  to  Samuel  H.  Mayes,  July  10, 
1896— 

1896 125 

Letter  to  John  F.  Brown,  July  10, 1896— 

18% 169 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner,  July  10, 
1896— 

1896 95 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosely,  July  10, 1896— 

1896 110 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosely,  July  26,  1896— 

1896 109 

Letter  to  Isparhecher,  August  7, 1896— 

1896 142 

Letter  to  Samuel  H.  Mayes,  August?, 


126 


John  F.  Brown,  August  8,  18%,  letter 
to— 

18% 170 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosely,  Augusts,  18%— 

18% Ill 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner,  Augusts, 
18%— 

1896 96 

Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Septem 
ber  14,  18%- 

18% 145 

Letter  to  John  L.  Adair,  September  16, 
1896— 

18% 130 

Letter  to  D.  W.  Bushyhead,  September 
16,  18%— 

18% 130 

Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Septem 
ber  26, 1896— 

1896 146 

Letter  to  R.  M.  Harris,  October  23, 
1896— 

1896 114 

Letter  to  Hon.  Green  McCurtain,  Oc 
tober  25,  1896— 

1896 97 

Letters  to  Creek  commission,  Decem 
ber  15,  1896— 

1896 161,163 

Letter  to  Cherokee  commission,  De 
cember  17, 18%— 

1896 135 

Caddo,  conference  at: 

18%...  110 


Camp  equipment:  Page. 

Purchase  of — 

1898 7 

1899 12 

Repairs  of — 

1901 106 

Campbell,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1902 30 

Campbell,  F.  L.,  opinion  concerning  reso-    /" 
lution  of  Commission,  August  28, 1903: 

1904 43 

Canard,  Drew  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1903 140 

Cancellation  of  allotments,  Creek  Nation: 

1902 85 

1903 101 

1904 97 

Candles,  purchase  of,  for  field  parties: 

1901 105 

Canned  vegetables  or   fruit,  amount  al 
lowed  field  parties: 

1901 ,...          106 

Capitol  building: 

Cherokee  Nation,  reservation  for — 

1899 54,66 


1902. 
1903. 
1904. 


Chickasaw  Nation,  reservation  for— 
1897... 


103 
119 

115 

11 
27 
39 
66 
82 

1903 72,92,108 

1904 68, 104 

Choctaw  Nation,  reservation  for— 


1889. 
1900. 
1901. 


1902. 


1904. 


........................  92 

........................  108 

........................  104 

Creek  Nation,  reservation  for— 

1899  ...............................  61,63 

Disposition  of  — 

1900  ...............................  41 

Reservation  for  — 

18%  ...............................  101,  109 

1897  ...............................  11,52 


1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 


Carthage,    identification    of    Mississippi 
Choctaws  at: 

1901  ................................... 

1902  ................................... 

Catoosa,  enrollment  of  Cherokees: 

1900  ................................... 

1902  ......  .  ............................ 

Cattle,  unlawful  introduction  of: 

1897  ................................... 

Cattle  grazing: 

In  Cherokee  Nation— 

1900  ............................... 


60 


42 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Cattle  grazing—  Continued. 
In  Creek  Nation— 
1902                    

Page. 

88 

Cemeteries  —  Continued. 
Reservation  for  — 
1903  . 

Page. 
66 

1903                        

104 

1904  

62 

1904 

100 

Reservation  for  Cherokee  Nation 

In  Indian  Territory  — 

1902 

103 

1900                                       .  .. 

52 

1903 

119 

1901                                    

62 

1904. 

115 

1902                        

79 

Reservation  for'  Chickasaw  Nation 

1903          

89 

1896  

119 

1904  

85 

Reservation  for,  Creek  Nation  — 

Cattle  tax  Creek  Nation* 

1900 

49 

1900                                              

52 

1901 

50 

1901                                             

52 

1902 

77 

1902                                  

79,  88 

1903..   .. 

87 

1903                                 

89,  104 

1904  

83 

1904                               

.  .  .  .     85,  100 

Title  to— 

Cemeteries* 

1899  

52 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations, 
ervation  for  — 
1902  

res- 
92 

Cemetery,  reservation  for,  at  Bloomfield, 
Chickasaw  Nation: 
1896 

1903 

108 

1904 

104 

Census: 

Distance  from  town  sites— 
1896 

103 

Of    Cherokee  freedmen,  ordered  by 
Court  of  Claims— 

1897 

86 

Establishment  of— 
1900  

38 

Creek  Indians— 

1900 

19 

For  town  sites— 
1902      

107 

Of  Indians  — 

1898 

7  25 

1903  

123 

1899  

11,37 

1900  

64 

Location  of— 

1901  

80 

1902  

60 

1903  

70 

1904  

66 

1901 

48  84 

Necessity  for  taking— 

1897  

93 

1903 

75  85  103 

Of  1896,  names  improperly  added  to— 

1905  

16 

Patents  to— 

Notice  of,  Creek  Nation— 
1897 

57  64 

1896 

103 

1899  

63 

Center,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1896  

118 

1898  

22 

Certificate1 

1899 

35 

1900  

62 

1903 

176 

1901  

78 

Of  citizenship  Cherokee  Nation  form 

1902 

58 

of 

1903 

68 

1903 

170 

1904 

64 

Of  enrollment  Creek  Nation 

Provisions  for  — 

60 

1896 

103 

Certificates  of  allotment' 

1898. 

21 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1899  

35 

1903 

175 

1900  

62 

Choctaw  Nation  — 

1901  

.   .              78 

1904 

45 

1902 

58 

1903 

68 

1899 

76 

1904 

64 

Reservation  for  — 

1905  

38 

1897  

52 

1898  

18 

1899 

19 

1899  

32,48,50  61 

1901 

65  69 

1900 

40  59 

1902 

102 

1901 

75 

1903 

118 

1902... 

56 

1904... 

114 

THE   FIVE 

Certificates  of  allotment—  Continued. 
Issuance  of,  to  Seminoles— 
1897 

CIVI 
Page. 

77 
87 
54 
80 
90 
86 

97 
66 
55 
71 
51 
61 
57 

14 

50,51 

87 
9 

105 
16 
34 
43 
70 
86 
67 
77 
73 

18 
32,54 
59 
75 
56 
66 
62 

30 

29 
63 

29 
63 

61 
46 

25 
23 

57 
40 

LIZED    TKIBES. 

Cherokee  Advocate—  Continued. 
Reservation  for  — 
1  899  

25 
Page. 

54 
103 
119 
115 

101 
117 
113 

11 

49 
35 

9 
49 

10 
44 

42 
29 
134 

9 
10 

133 

128 
29 

41 

103 
119 
115 

70 
92 
119 
130 
136 

122 
134 
140 

83 

23 
32 

1899 

1902  

1901 

1903  

1904 

1903            

Cherokee  agreement: 
Approved  July  1,  1902— 
1902                              

1904 

Cession  of  lands: 
To  United  States— 
1897                                                  

1903          

1904  .       ...            

1899                                               

Concluded  April  9,  1900— 
1900  

1900                                    

1901                                           

Draft  of— 
1899  

1902                                         

1903                                    

1900  

1904                                  

Failure  to  ratify— 
1901 

To  United  States  opposed  by  Indians— 
1894                                

Of  January  14,  1899— 
1899 

Cession  of  territory  to  United  States  by 
treaty  of  1866: 
1894 

Ratification  of— 
1899 

Change  in  attitude  of  Indians: 
1895                          

1900 

Cherokee  Agricultural  Association,  reser 
vation  for,  at  Vinita: 
1900  . 

Change  of  name,  frequency  of: 
1905 

Change  of  venue: 
1896      

Cherokee  citizenship  rolls,  unreliability 
of: 
1897  

1897 

1898 

Cherokee  commission: 
Act  of  council  continuing— 
1896  

1899 

1900 

1901 

Appointed  to  negotiate  with  Dawes 
Commission: 
1899  

1902 

1903 

1904 

1901  

Charitable  institute,  reservation  for: 
1898 

Continuance  of— 
1896  

1899 

Cherokee   commissioners,  compensation 
of: 
1896  

1900 

1901 

1902 

Cherokee  correspondence: 
1897  

'    1903 

1904                           .               .  . 

Cherokee  Female  Seminary: 
Disposition  of— 
1900 

Charles  Thompson's  precinct,  enrollment 
of  Cherokees: 
1902  

Reservation  for— 
1902 

Chase,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at: 
1904 

1903 

1904 

1905  

Cherokee  freedmen: 
Decree  of  Court  of  Claims  concerning— 
1899 

Checotah: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at: 
1904 

1901 

1902                        

1905 

1903               

Reservation  for  town  site  at  — 
1899 

1904  

Departmental   instructions   concern 
ing  enrollment 

1900 

Chelsea,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1900.                                    

1902 

1903 

1901  

1904 

Cherokee  Advocate: 
Appropriation  for— 
1899 

Discrepancies  in  rolls  of  — 
1897.                                 

Enrollment  of— 
1901  

Provisions  for  — 
1900.  .  . 

1902... 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Cherokee  freedmen— Continued. 

Injunction   of   United    States   court 
against  enrollment  of — 

1904 

Number  of — 

1899 

1905 

On  Wallace  roll  unlawfully— 

1894 

Opinion   of  Attorney-General    as   to 
rights  of— 

1901 

Opinion  of  Assistant  Attorney-General 
as  to  enrollment  of— 

1904 

Preparation  of  1880  roll  of— 

1897 

Provisions  of  treaty  of  1866— 

1894 

Return  to  Indian  Territory— 

1904 

Right  to  be  determined  by  Court  of 
Claims— 

1904 

Right  to  participate  in  distribution  of 
funds— 

1899 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Cherokee  Indians,  number  of: 

1899 

Cherokee  land  office: 
Admission  card — 

1903 

Establishment  of,  at  Tahlequah— 

1904 

Cherokee  Male  Seminary: 
Disposition  of  land— 

1900 

Reservation  for— 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Cherokee  national  council,  act  of  contin 
uing  commission: 

1896 

Cherokee    Orphan   Asylum,    reservation 
for: 

1899 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Cherokee  Outlet: 

Agreement  concerning,  not  to  be  im 
paired— 

1894 

Purchase  of— 


1901 


Cherokee  Outlet  funds,  right  of  freedmen 
to  share  in: 


1901 
1903, 
1904 


Page. 

24 

12 
26 

14 
204 

166 

86 
47 
25 

125 


70 

92 

122 

130 

136 

12 


170 
32 


103 
119 
115 


1H4 


54 
103 
119 
115 


14 


131 
150 


70 

92 

130 

136 


Cherokees:  Page. 

Consent  to  be  given  before  statehood 
is  established— 

1899 58 

Eastern   Band,  decision  of  Supreme 
Court  in  suit  of— 

1899 119 

1901 138 

Enrollment  of— 

1900 25 

From  North  Carolina,  resolution  of 
council  concerning— 

1899 140 

1901 159 

Number  of— 

1905 24,26 

Progress  of  enrollment  of — 

1905 23 

Removal  of,  to  Indian  Territory— 

1899 115 

1901 135 

Status  of  Eastern  Band— 

1899 96,113 

1901 112,132 

Cherokee  roll,  corruption  of: 

1895 73 

Cherokee  strip: 

1895 74 

Cherokee  treaty: 
Of  1785— 

1899 114 

1901 132 

Of  1791— 

1899 114 

1901 132 

Of  1819— 

1899 115 

1901 134 

Of  1835— 

1897 89 

Of  1866,  provisions  affecting  freed 
men— 

1894 26 

Cherry  v.  Smith,  contest  case  of: 

1903 154 

Cheyenne   Indians,   right   to   locate   on 
leased  district: 

1894 51 

Chissoe  v.  Davis,  contest  case  of: 

1903 147 

Chickasaws: 

Agreement  with,  February  7,  1901— 

1901 10, 60, 66 

Number  of — 

1905 18, 23 

Chickasaw  citizenship  rolls,  reopened: 

1905 5,6 

Chickasaw  freedmen. 

Adjustment  of  claims  desired — 

1894 52 

Allotment  of  land  to — 

1896 101 

1902 89 

1903. 105 

1904 100 

Appeal  to  Supreme  Court— 
1901 


THE    FIVE 

Chickasaw  freedmen—  Continued. 
Appointment  of  committee  to  present 
claims  of  — 
1894 

CIVI 

Page. 

35 
38 
63 
35 
63,67 
6 
93 
45 
38 

39 
46 

93 
24 
37 
64 
,67,80 
,  60,  95 
70,111 
66,  107 

11 
27 
39 
66 
82 
62 
72 
68 

90 
39 

51 
35. 

,  48,  49 
37 
119 
117 

106 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Chickasaw  freedmen  —  Continued. 
Not  to  participate  in  town-site  funds  of 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1897  

27 

Page. 

14 

31 
41 
68 
84 
65 
75 
71 

12 
22,23 

206 

28 

17 
35 
44 

71 

87 
67 
78 
74 

21 

48 

6,  37,  53 
6 

39 

95 
111 
107 

51 

27 
89 
36 

48 
38 

29 
63 

20 

Appropriation  for  — 
1894 

1898  

1899  

Attorney-General  to  file  suit  against— 
1901                                  

1900  

1901  

Attorneys  for— 
1894 

1902 

1903 

Case  submitted  to  Court  of  Claims— 
1901                          

1904 

Number  of  — 
1899 

Difficulties  in  enrolling  — 
1898 

1905     . 

Disputed  claims  of— 
1897 

Opinion  of  Attorney-General  concern 
ing  rights  of  — 
1901  

Duties  of  United  States  to— 
1894                                           

Poverty  of— 
1894  

Educational  facilities  for— 
1894                                  

Prohibited  from  sharing  in  distribu 
tion  of  tribal  funds— 
1897  

Efforts  of  George  T.  Olmstead  in  be 
half  of— 
1894 

1898 

Emancipation  of  — 
1894 

1899  

1900 

Enrollment  of— 
1897                                              

1901  

1902 

1898                                                

1903 

1899                                                

1904 

1900                                                 -   --- 

Progress  of  enrollment  of— 
1905  

1901                                         63 

1902                                                 15 

Power  of  Congress  to  remedy  treaty 
wrongs  against— 
1894 

1903                                           16, 

1904                                                        18 

Excluded  from  participating  in  coal 
and  asphalt  funds— 

Removal  of— 
1894  26,3 
1898  

1898 

Report  of  Indian  agent  concerning— 
1894  - 

1900                                                  

Right  to  be  determined  by  Court  of 
Claims  — 
1902  

1901                                                   ... 

-inno 

1903  

1Q04 

1904  :  

Exclusion  by  Atoka  agreement  — 

18Q7 

Right  to  locate  upon  leased  district  — 
1894  

Ignorance  of  — 
1894          

Right  to  share  in  tribal  funds  and 
property  — 
1894  

Memorial  of  J.  D.  Collins,  concern 
ing— 

Status  of  citizenship— 
1897  

Memorial  of— 

Treaty  of  1866  concerning— 
1894  

Message  of  President  Harrison  con 
cerning— 

-IQQ4                                                                                                             Q1 

Treaty  wrongs,  power  of  Congress  to 
remedy— 
1894  

Nonfulfillment  of  treaty  of  1866— 
1894  

Chickasaw  land  office,  removal  from  Tish- 
omingo  to  Ardmore: 
1905  

Not  entitled  to  hold  town  lots  — 
1896                               

Chickasha: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at— 
1904 

Not  to  participate  in  allotment— 
1896  

Not  to  participate  in  the  distribution 
of  funds— 
1896... 

1905                                       

Enrollment  of  children  at  — 
1905.  .  . 

28 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Chickasha—  Continued. 
Reservation  for  town  site  at— 
1896 

Page. 

118 

Choctaw  freedmen: 
Act  of  May  21,  1883— 
1894 

Page. 

Chief   executives,  conference    with,  re 
quested  by  Commission: 
1895                                                     

84 

Allotment  to  be  deducted  from  lands 
of    Choctaw    and    Chickasaw   na 
tions  — 

Childers,  E.  B.,  suspension  from  office  of 

1897 

11 

Creek's  national  treasurer: 

1898 

28 

1897 

68 

1899 

39 

Children,  enrollment  of: 

1900 

66 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1901  

82 

1899 

53 

1902 

62 

Creek  Nation— 

1903  

72 

1899                                  

64 

1904 

68 

1901.            

9 

Appointment  of  committee  to  repre 

1902  

36,83 

sent  — 

1903  

99 

1894. 

23 

1904          

95 

Appropriation  for  — 

Under  act  of  March  3,  1905  — 

1894. 

38 

1905  5,  6,  19 

,  30,  32 

Claims  to  interest  in   leased  district 

Of  intermarried  whites— 
1905 

16 

payment— 
1894 

31 

Chocolate,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 
1901 

105 

Claims  of— 
1894 

31 

Choctaw  agreement  of  February  7,  1901: 
1901                                                

60,66 

Conference  with  — 
1894 

23 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  agreement: 
1902                                               

88 

Confidence  of,  in  Dawes  Commission— 
1894 

23 

1903                                         

104 

Convention  of  association  — 

1904.               

100 

1894  

23 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  citizenship  rolls: 
Progress  in  preparation  of  — 

Demand  for  protection— 
1894  

32 

1905  

10 

Difficulties  in  enrolling  — 

Failure  of  ratification  — 

1898  

6 

1898  

4 

Duty  of  United  States  toward— 

Ratification  of  — 

1894 

28 

1902 

100 

Emancipation  of  — 

1903 

116 

1894 

°4 

1904 

112 

Enrollment  of  — 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  citizenship  court1 

1898 

24 

1904 

130 

1899. 

37 

1905 

10 

1900  .  . 

64 

Appropriation  for  — 

1901  

80 

1904  

123 

1902  

60 

Work  of— 

1903  

70 

1904  

12 

1904  

17,66 

Choctaw  citizens,  fraud  in  enrollment  of: 
1897 

18 

Ignorance  of— 
1894 

32 

Choctaw  citizenship  rolls: 
Requested  — 

Injustice  to— 
1894 

28 

1897                       

18 

Insufficiency    of    law    for    fulfilling 

Reopened  — 
1905             .... 

5  6 

treaty  stipulations  — 
1894  

29 

Choctaw  annuity,  Mississippi  Choctaws 
not  to  share  in: 

Lack  of  educational  facilities— 
1894  

29 

1898 

14 

Lack  of  protection  in  use  and  occu 

1899 

76 

pancy  of  public  domain  — 

Choctaw  Coal  and  Railway  Company  ter 

1894                 

29 

mination  of  leases: 
1896  

104 

Memorial  of  — 
1894  

23 

Choctaw    Colored   Citizens'   Association, 
memorial  of: 
1894 

23 

Message  of  President  Harrison  con 
cerning— 
1894 

48,49 

Choctaw    enrollment    cases,  decision  of 
Commission  in: 
1902  .  .  . 

19 

Not  to  participate  in  distribution  of 
funds  — 
1896... 

106 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TEIBES. 


29 


Choctaw  freedmen— Continued. 
Number  of— 

1899 

1905 

Poverty  of — 

1894 

Prohibited  from  sharing  in  distribu 
tion  o*  tribal  funds — 

1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

Removal  of— 

1894 

Report  of  Indian  agent  concerning — 

1894 

Request  for  survey  of  Choctaw  Na 
tion— 

1894 

Right  to  locate  upon  leased  district— 

1894 

Treatment  of— 

1894 

Choctaw    funds,   right    of    freedmen  to 
share  in: 

1894 

Choctaw  Indians,  number  of: 

1899 

1905 

Choctaw  orphan  lands,  sale  of,  in  Missis 
sippi: 


Page. 

12 
21,23 

28, 32 


1899.., 
1900... 
1901.. 
1902.. 
1903... 
1904.. 


Choctaw  national  council,  ratification  of 
agreement: 

1897 

Choctaw,  Oklahoma  and  Gulf  Railroad, 
authorized  to  transfer  certain  leases: 

1904 

Choctawsand  Chickasaws,  enrollment  of: 

1899 

1902 

Choctaws: 

Agreement  with,  February  7,  1901— 

1901 

Enrollment  of — 

1899 

1900 

1904 

Number  of— 

1905 

Sale  of  land  to  United  States— 


1899. 


Statistics  showing  enrollment  of— 
1903... 


51 
24 

27 

12 
17,23 


21 


127 


14 
164 


10 

14 
12 
16 

17,23 

14 

77 

18 


Choctaw  tribal  funds,  right  of  Choctaw    Page, 
freedmen  to  share  in: 

1894 27 

Choteau,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1902 30 

Church  houses,  reservation  for  Cherokee 
Nation: 

1902 103 

1903 119 

1904 115 

Churches: 

Disposition  of — 

1897 14 

1898 32 

1899 ..  42 

1900 69 

1901 85 

1902 65 

1903 75 

1904 71 

Reservation  for — 

1897 11,52,78 

1898 18,27 

1899 32,39,48,50,53,54,61,63,88 

1900 48,59,66 

1901 49,55,75,82 

1902 56,62,76,81,85,92 

1903 66,72,86,91,108 

1904 32, 62,  68, 82, 87, 104 

Reservation  for,  at  Vinita— 

1900 42 

Reservation  for,  in  townsites— 

1902... 107 

1903 123 

1904 119 

Citizenship: 

Appointment  of  committee  to  deter 
mine,  in  Creek  Nation — 
1894 9 

Conferred  by  intermarriage — 

1905 12 

Degree  of  blood  essential  to— 

1899 99 

1901 118 

Determination  of,   in  Cherokee  Na 
tion— 
1894 11, 12 

Determination  of,  by  Choctaw  tribal 
council — 
1895 88 

Forfeiture      of,      by      intermarried 
whites — 

1899 15 

1905 : 12 

Forfeiture  of,  in  Cherokee  Nation— 

1899 140 

1901 159 

Not  essential  to  institute  contest— 

1902 158 

Of  United  States  conferred  on  Creeks — 

1897 55 

Qualifications  essential  to— 

1896 146 

1899 7, 10, 122, 132, 157 

1901 141,151,176 

1902...  10 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES; 


Citizenship  case: 
Of  Jack  Amos  et  al.— 
1899                           

Page. 

92 

Citizenship  commission,  appointment  of 
Creek: 
1899 

Page.' 

158 

Of  S    J    Cundiff  decision  of  United 

1900  

21 

States  court  in  — 

1901  

177 

1899 

-      99 

Citizenship  court1 

1901 

118 

Appropriation  for  — 

Of  E  J   Home  — 

1903 

126 

1899                                         

98 

1904 

122 

Of  Mary  Jane  Kimberlin,  decision  of 
court  of  appeals  in  — 
1901  

198 

Decision  in  case  of  Thomas  Brennon 
et  al.— 
1905  

12 

Of  F.  R.  Robinson,  decision  of  United 
States  court  in— 
1899 

105 

Decision  in  case  of  Thornton  Pearce 
et  al.— 
1905 

12 

1901 

124 

Decision  in  case  of  J  T  Riddle  et  al  — 

Of  W    R  Senter    decision  of  United 

1904 

13 

States  court  in— 
1899                            

100 

Finality  of  decision  — 
1905 

15 

1901          

119 

Jurisdiction,  enrollment  of  citizens  — 

Of  Win.  N.  Tucker,  decision  of  United 

1905  

13 

States  court  in  — 
1899 

106 

Opinion  in  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
enrollment  cases  — 

1901 

125 

1904 

130 

Of  Wm.  J.  Watts,  motion  for  rehear- 
intr  -  - 

Review  of  work  performed  by— 
1905 

10 

1899 

142 

Work  of 

1901 

161 

1904 

12 

Citizenship  cases: 

Citizenship  rolls: 
1903  ...                                 

10 

Appeal  to  United  States  court  in— 

1904  

130 

Decisions  of  Supreme  Court  in  — 

Addition  of  names  by  Commission  — 
1895  

84 

1901 

179 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1899  

53 

Decisions  of  United  States  court  in  — 

1900  

25,39 

1901  

22 

1902 

28  104 

1902        

93 

1903 

18  120 

1903  

108 

1904 

116 

1904  

104 

Determination  of  Chickasaw— 

Cherokee  Nation,  preparation  of  — 
1905 

23 

1896  

111 

Jurisdiction  of   United  States  court 

Cherokee  Nation,  requested  — 
1896  

126 

in— 

1897                   

35 

1899  

128 

1901                                                     62 

67  147 

Chickasaw  freedmen  — 

1903  

16 

Opinion  of  Judge  Clayton— 
1898 

15 

Chickasaw  Nation— 

1902  

13 

1903 

14 

Opinion  of  Judge  Springer  — 
1899  

156 

Chickasaw  Nation,  progress  in  prep 

1901  

175 

aration  of— 

1904                       

17 

Trial  at  South  McAlester— 

1905.                            ...     . 

18 

1904  

14 

Trial  at  Tishomingo  — 

Chickasaw  Nation,  requested  — 
1896  

111 

1897  

24 

Citizenship  certificate,  Cherokee  Nation: 
1903  

170 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

-10 

Citizenship  claims: 

1901                                                     1 

0  61  66 

Creek  Nation  — 

1902 

10  92 

1896  

143 

1903                             

11  108 

Determination  of,  at  Tahlequah  — 

1904                 

11,104 

1896 

127 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  clas 

Determination  of  Cherokee  Nation  — 
1896... 

129 

sification  of  — 
1900... 

18 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


31 


Citizenship  rolls— Continued. 
Choctaw  freedmen— 

1904 

Choctaw  Nation — 
1902... 


Page. 


17 


Choctaw  Nation,  progress  in  prepara 
tion  of— 

1904 16 

1905 16 

Choctaw  Nation,  requested  by  Com 
mission — 
1896 96 

Closing  of— 

1901 91 

1902 71 

1903 81 

1904 77 

1905 15 

Closing  of,  Creek  Nation— 

1905 27 

Commission  directed  to  prepare— 

1895 84 

Confirmation  of— 

1896 83 

Creek  Nation— 

1899 64 

1900 19,50 

1901 28,51 

1902 35,77,86 

1903 28, 87, 102 

1904 20,83,98 

Creek  Nation,  progress  in  preparation 
of— 
1905 27 

Creek  Nation,  requested— 

1896 142 

1897 48, 57 

Delay  in  preparation  caused  protest 
of  attorneys— 
1904 12 

Finality  of— 

1901 91 

1902 71 

.       1903 81 

1904 77 

Inaccuracy  of  tribal — 

1902 11 

Preparation  of,  by  Commission — 

1896 63 

Progress  in  preparation  of— 

1897 92 

1904 11 

1905 8 

Reopened — 

1905 5,6 

Revision  of,  by  Commission — 

1897 84 

Seminole  Nation— 

1900 12, 54 

1901 30, 59 

1902 83 

1903 99 

1904 89 

Seminole  Nation,  requested  by  Com 
mission— 


1897. 


170 
73 


Citizenship  rolls — Continued. 

To  be  approved  by  Secretary  of  Inte 
rior— 


1899. 
1900. 
1901. 
1902. 
1903. 
1904. 


To  be  descriptive  of  persons  enrolled — 


1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 .- 

To  be  prepared  by  Commission— 

1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Unreliability  of— 

1897 

Where  filed- 

1895 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1901 

Civil  war: 

Attitude  of  Choctaw  Nation  in— 


Claims  for  destruction  of  property— 

1896 

Claim: 

Of  Chickasaw  freedmen  to  leased- dis 
trict  payment — 

1894 

Missouri,  Kansas,  and  Texas  to  alter 
nate  sections  of  land — 

1897 

Of  John  J.  Hemphill— 

1899 

Of  William  T.  Hutchings— 

1899 

Against  United  States  settlement  of — 

1894 

Arbitration  of — 

1896 

For  destruction  of  property — 

1896 

Of  Chickasaw  freedmen— 

1894 

Plans  for  adjustment  of— 

1894 

To   be   determined  in  Court  of 
Claims— 

1902 

1903 

1904... 


Page. 


25 

37, 168 
64 


23 

36,67 
56,63 
72,79 
52,59 
62,69 
58,65 


24 
148 

37 

90,91 
58 
58 
8 

105 

148 

35,51 

52 


95 
111 
107 


32 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Claim—  Continued. 
Of  Choctaw  freedmen  — 
1894  21 

Page. 
,23,31 

10,  15 

56,162 
54 
64 
49 
50 
77 
87 
83 

17 
181 

40 
5,6 

26 
38 
65 
81 
61 
71 
67 

87 
5,10 
73 

99 
68 
57 
73 
53 
63. 
59 

93 
42 
54 

78 
88 
55 
81 
92 
88 

114 

11,13 
132 
56 
43 
108 
124 
120 

Claims  —  Continued. 
Settlement  of— 
Desired  by  Five  Tribes— 
1896  

Page. 

158 
10 

117 
23 

8» 

10 
17 
35 

44 
71 
87 
67 
77 
73 

63 

25 
23 

57 

25 

48 
49 
76 
86 

82 

25 

18 

101,103 
14 

28 
39,  50 
35,  68 
8,  32,  84 

Of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaws  lease  dis 
trict— 
1894 

Chickasaw  — 
1894 

Claims: 
Of  Creek  Nation,  settlement  of— 
1896  145,1 

Desired  by  Chickasaws  — 
1896.. 

1897 

1897  

Act  of  Choctaw  Council— 
1895 

1899 

1900 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1894 

1901 

1902 

1897. 

1903.              .... 

1898  

1904  

1899  

Of  Delaware  Indians— 
1899  

1900  

1901  

1904 

1902 

Delay  caused  by— 
1905 

1903 

1904 

Reopened  — 
1905. 

Claremore: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at  — 
1905  

To   be  determined    by  Court  of 
Claims— 
1898  

Enrollment  of  Cherokees  at— 
1900  

1899  

1900  

1901  

1901  

Establishment  of  United  States  court 
at— 
1899 

1902  

1903 

1904 

Clark,  Clement  G.,  decision  in  enrollment 
case  of: 
1903.     .  .              

Of  Mississippi  Choctaws— 
1897 

1898 

Clarksville,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1900  

1899  

Commission  directed   to  investi 
gate— 
1897  

1901  

1902  

1903  

1899 

1904 

1900  

Classification: 
Applications  for  enrollment— 
1905      

1901  

1902  

1903  

Of    citizenship   rolls,    Choctaw    and 
Chickasaw  nations— 
1900 

1904 

Commission  to  report  on  — 
1897 

Of  land— 
1896 

Of  Richard  C.  Adams— 
1905 

1897 

Self-emigration  — 
1897...     . 

1898                

1899            

Seminoles,  settlement  of  — 
1897  

1900     

1901  

1899  

1902  

62 
31,72 
9,68 

28 
101 
117 
113 

121 
11 

28 
24,  39 
26,66 
82 

1901 

1903 

1902 

1904 

1903 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1900 

1904 

Settlement  of— 
1896 

1902 

1903                    

Cherokee  — 
1894  

1904          

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1896 

1896 

1899 

1897 

1900 

1898 

1902 

1899 

1903 

1900                                           

1904... 

1901... 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


33 


Classification— Continued.  Page. 
Of  land— 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1902 63,89 

1903 72 , 105 

1904 68, 101 

Creek  Nation— 

1897 51 

1899 59 

1900 28, 45 

1901 45 

1902 72, 85 

1903 82, 101 

1904 78,  97 

Form  of  field  record — 

1899 86, 88 

Map  showing  progress  of,  in  Semi- 
nole  Nation — 

1899 88 

Progress  of — 

1902 43 

Representatives  of  Choctaw  and 
Chickasaw  nations  to  assist  in— 

1897 12 

1898 28 

1899 39 

1900 66 

1901 82 

1902 63 

1903 73 

1904 69 

Rules   and    regulations    govern 
ing— 

1901  108 

Seminole  Nation — 

1897 77 

1899 22, 87 

1900 26 

1901 31,54 

1902 80 

1903 90 

1904 86 

Parties,  personnel  of — 

1901 108 

Record — 

1900 32 

Clayton,  Wm.  H.  H.,  decisions  in  citizen 
ship  cases: 

1898 15 

1899 77,91 

1901 110 

Clerks,  Commission  authorized  to  employ: 

1898 23 

1899 36 

1901 79 

1902 59 

1903 69 

1904 65 

Clerical  assistance: 

Appropriation  for— 

1897 99 

1899 68,69 

1900 72, 73 

1901 73, 88, 89, 91 

1902 53, 69, 71, 84 

1903 63,  79, 81, 100, 125 

1904 59,75,77,95,121 

15013—06 3 


Clerical  assistance — Continued. 
For  Cherokee  commission— 

1896 

For  Commission,  provision  for — 

1897... 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

For  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs— 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Requirement  of  Commission- 


Page. 

128 

97 

66,69 
55,73 
71,89 
51,69 
61,79 
57,75 

91 
71 

81,125 
77, 121 


Cleveland,  Grover,  letter  t;>  Secretary  of 
the  Interior  concerning  Commission, 
May  4,  1895: 

1895 60 

Clifton  roll  of  Cherokee  freedmen,  inac 
curacy  of: 

1902 123 

1903 135 

1904 141 

Closing  of  citizenship  rolls: 

1900 73 

1901 89, 91 

1902 69, 71,  79, 81 

1904 75, 77 

1905 15 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1901 61, 66 

Creek  Nation— 

1904 21 

1905 27 

Seminole  Nation— 

1900 54 

1901 59 

1902 83 

1903 99 

1904 11,89 

Coalgate,  reservation  lor  town  site  at: 

1903 34 

Coal: 

Abundance  of,  in  Choctaw  Nation— 

1894 18 

Disposition  of  revenue  from— 

1896 103 

Disposition   of   royalties,  Chickasaw 
Nation— 

1896.... 120 

Purchase  of,  for  field  parties — 

1901 105 

Rate  of  royalties — 

1896 104 

Reservation  of — 

1894 8 

1896 101 

1898 18 

1899 32 

1900 '. 59 

1901 75 

1902 55,  92 

1903 65, 108 

1904 61,104 


34 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Coal  and  asphalt  land: 
Additional  segregation  of  — 
1901  

Page. 

126 

Coal  land  —  Continued. 
Reservation  of  — 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 

Page. 

Jurisdiction  of  United    States  court 

1894. 

10 

over— 
1897 

16 

Creek  Nation— 
1894 

3 

1898. 

33 

Seminole  Nation  — 

1899  

43 

1894 

13 

1900  

70 

Coal  leases: 

1901 

86 

Of  Choctaw  Oklahoma  and  Gulf  Rail 

1902 

66 

road  — 

1903.. 

76 

1904 

127 

1904  

72 

To  be  approved  by  Secretary  of  the 

Lease   of,   Choctaw   and    Chickasaw 
nations  — 

Interior— 
1897  

77 

1902 

99 

1901 

54 

1903 

114 

1902 

81 

1901 

106 

1903 

91 

gale  of— 

1904 

87 

1904  

124 

To  be  made  with  Seminole  tribal  gov 

Sale  of,  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  na 
tions  — 

ernment— 
1897 

77 

1902 

98 

1901 

54 

1903 

114 

1902 

81 

1904. 

110 

1903 

91 

Segregation  of  — 

1904...   . 

87 

1903  

33 

Segregation  of,  Choctaw  and  Chicka 
saw  nations— 

Disposition  of  royalties  — 
1896 

104 

1902 

98 

1903  

114 

1896 

103  104 

1904. 

110 

Coal  fields,  monopoly  of: 

Coal  oil,  purchase  of,  for  field  parties: 
1901  ... 

105 

1895  

69 

Coal  land: 
Disposition  of— 
1897 

14  23 

Coal  royalty: 
Disposition  of— 
1897  

15 

1898 

32 

1898  

32 

1899 

42 

1899  

42 

1900 

69 

1900  

69 

1901 

85 

1901  

85 

190° 

65 

1902  

65 

1903 

75 

1903  

75 

1904 

71 

1904  

71 

Division  of,  by  act  of  Choctaw  coun- 
pil 

Seminole  Nation  — 
1897 

77 

1895 

87 

1901  

54 

1902  

81 

1898 

1903  

91 

1899 

qc 

1904  

87 

1900 

62 

1901.. 

78 

1901 

105 

1902  

58 

1903  

68 

1904  

64 

1894 

r.o 

Leasing  of  — 
1894. 

15 

Colbert: 

Location  of— 
1894  

15 

Enrollment  of  Choctaws  and  Chicka- 
saws  at  — 

1900  

14 

Regulations  for  leasing— 
1898  

19 

Reservation  for  town  site  at— 

1896  

118 

1900  "... 

33 

60 

Col  bert.E.D.,  memorial  of,  Choctaw  f  reed- 

1901  

76 

men: 

1902 

1894  

32 

1903  ... 

66 

1904... 

62 

1897... 

23 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


35 


Collection  of  revenue—  Continued. 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1900               .                 

Page. 

42 
108 
124 
120 

119 
23 
119 

48 
192 

51 

119 
11 
27 
39 
66 
82 
62,  92 
72,  108 
68,104 

63,65 

52 
61 
49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

41 

103 
119 
115 

118 
51 

134 
128 

117 
98 

Commission  —  Continued. 
Appointed  by  Scminole  Nation  to  ne 
gotiate  with  Dawes  Commission  — 
1897  

Page. 
71 

111 
143 

7 

23 
36 
63 
79 
59 
69 
•5 

13 

97 
66 
55 
71 
51 
61 
57 

7 
5,8 

8 

21 

91 
71 

81,  125 
77,  121 

84 

84 
99 
67 
56 
72 
53 
63 
59 

98 
112,121 
157 

1902           

1903       

Appointment  of,  authorized  by  Chick 
asaw  legislature  — 
1896 

1904 

Chickasaw  Nation— 
1896 

Appointment  of,  to  Creek  Nation  — 
1896  .                                   

Collection  of  royalties: 
1897                               

Authority  of,  explained  to  chief  ex 
ecutives  of  Five  Tribes— 
1894  

Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1896  

Collins,  Bro  wn.r.,  decision  of  Department 
in  contest  case  of: 
1902 

Authorized  to  employ  necessary  assist 
ance— 
1898 

1904 

1899 

Collins,  J.D.,  memorial  concerning  Chick 
asaw  freedmen: 
1894  

1900 

1901. 

1902  

Collins  Institute,  reservation  for: 

1896 

1903  

1904 

1897  

Jurisdiction,  enrollment  of  citizens— 
1905 

1898 

1899 

Commission  to  the  Five  Civilized  Tribes: 
Appointment  of  — 

1897 

1900 

1901  

1902  

1903  

1904  

Collinsville,  alienation  of  land  for  town- 
site  purposes  at: 
1905  

1902  

1903  

1Q04 

Colored  Creek  Orphan  Home,  reservation 
for: 
1897  

Termination  of  — 
1904 

1899 

Commissioner  appointed  to  succeed  Com 
mission  to  the  Five  Civilized  Tribes: 
1905 

1900 

1901 

1902                                                  .  .     . 

Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs: 
Appeal  in  contest  cases— 
1899  

1903                                             

1904                  

Colored  High  School: 
Disposition  of  reservation  for  — 
1900                                

Clerical  assistance  for— 
1901 

1902 

Reservation  for  — 
1902  

1903 

1904 

1903  

Letter  of  July  20,  1897,  concerning  en 
rollment  of  freedmen  — 
1897  

1904  

Comanche,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
18% 

To  have  copy  of  final  rolls— 
1895  

Comanche    Indians,    settlement   of,    on 
leased  district: 
1894 

1897 

1899 

Commission: 
Act  of  council  continuing,  Cherokee 
Nation  — 
1896 

1900 

1901 

1902.              

1903  

Appointed  by  Cherokee  Nation  — 
1896  

1904  

Commissioners: 
Choctaw  Nation,  salary  of  — 
1896  

Appointed  by  Chickasaw  Nation  to 
negotiate  with  Dawes  Commission— 
1896 

Compensation  of  Chickasaw— 
1896 

Appointed  by  Choctaw  council  to  ne 
gotiate  with  Dawes  Commission  — 
1896... 

Compensation  of,  Creek  Nation  — 
1896... 

36 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TKIBES. 


Commissioners — Continued . 
Manner  of  appointment — 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Number  increased  to  live— 

1897... 


1900. 
1901. 
1902. 
1903. 
1904. 


Compensation: 

Of  commissioners— 
1897... 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  Cherokee  Commissioners— 

1896 

Of  Chickasaw  Commissioners — 

1896 

Of  Creek  Commissioners— 

1896... 


Page. 

97 
66 
55 
71 
51 
61 
57 


Committee: 

Appointment     by     the     Chickasaw 
Nation   to   negotiate  with  United 
States— 

1895 66 

Appointment  by  Creek  Nation  to  ne 
gotiate  with  Commission — 

1894 8 

1896 156 

Appointed  to  determine  Creek  citi 
zenship — 

1894 9 

Appointed  to  present  claims  of  Chick 
asaw  freedmen— 

1894 35 

Appointed  to  represent  Choctaw  freed 
men— 

1894 23 

Of  18,  revision  of  rolls  by— 

1900 21 

On  Indian  Affairs- 
Report  of— 

1899 160 

1901 179 

Report  of  C.  Delano,  concerning 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  freed 
men— 

1894 26 

Requests  for  correspondence  be 
tween  Commission  and  Five 
Tribes— 

1894 3 

1897...  3 


97 
66 
55 
71 
51 
61 
57 

128 
121 
157 


Complaint: 

In  contest  cases- 


Page. 


84 

100 

....  112,158 

158 


1901 

1902 

1903 

Of  Chickasaw  freedmen — 

1894 39 

Creek  Nation,  of  unlawful  introduc 
tion  of  cattle— 

1897 60 

Completion  of  work,  estimate  of  time  re 
quired  for: 

1905 5 

Conahatta,  identification   of    Mississippi 
Choctaws  at: 

1902 23 

Condemnation  of  lands  for  municipal  pur 
poses: 

1898 '..  19 

1899 34 

1900 61 

1901 77 

1902 57 

1903 67 

1904 63 

Condition  of  Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1894 39 

Conference: 
At  Atoka— 

1896 110 

At  Caddo— 

1896 110 

At  Eufaula— 

1896 130, 145 

At  Fort  Gibson— 

1896 130 

At  Fort  Smith— 

1896 98,  99, 116 

At  Muscogee — 

1896 99, 100, 144, 148, 149 

At  McAlester,  international — 

1896 134 

At  Okmulgee — 

1894 8 

1896 114 

At  Tahlequah— 

1896 125, 127, 130, 136, 137 

At  Tishomingo — 

1894 10 

At  Sapulpa — 

1896 144 

At  South  McAlester— 

1896 98 

At  Vinita— 

1896 115, 131 

At  Washington — 

1901 60 

Between  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  na 
tions — 

1896 113 

Of  Commission  with  Secretary  of  In 
terior — 

1895 59 

Of  Five  Tribes— 

1896 113, 133 


THE   FIVE 

Conference  —  Continued. 
With  Department  at  Washington— 
1900 

CIV] 

Page. 
11 

136 
34 

11 
133 

,  32,  35 

LIZED   TRIBES. 

Conference  —Continued. 
With  principal  chief,  Cherokee  Na 
tion— 
1895  

37 

Page. 

59,64 

46 
46 
73 
83 
79 

24 
36 
23,63 
79 
60 
70 
66 

83 
23 
36 
63 
79 
59 
69 
65 

122 
134 
140 

72 

158 
158 

158 

155 

117 
136 

157 
176 

28 

100 
68 
57 
73 
53 
63 
59 

46 
17 
158 

With  Cherokees  at  Fort  Gibson— 
1896.   .                                    

Confirmation: 
Of  allotments,  Creek  Nation— 
1900  

1897  

With  Cherokees  at  Muscogee— 
1894  

1901 

1896  

1902 

With  Cherokees  at  Tahlequah— 
18J7  29,31 

1903  

1904 

With  Cherokees  at  Vinita  — 
1896  

136 
11 

7 

84 
66 

10 
109 

66 
117 

10 
23 
7 
88 

9 
95 

7 

90 
8 
47,48 
141 
11 

67 
47 

61,63 

12 
169 
72  74 

Of  Dunn  roll— 
1898 

With  Cherokees  at  Washington— 
1900  

1899 

1900 

With  chief  executives  of  Five  Tribes  — 
1894  

1901. 

1902 

With  chief  executives  requested  by 
Commission— 
1835  

1903  

1904....'.. 

Of  tribal  rolls— 
1896. 

With  Chickasaws— 
1895  

1898  

At  Tishomingo— 
1894 

1899.  .  . 

1900. 

1896 

1901. 

At  Tushkahoma  — 
1895 

1902 

1903 

With  Chickasaw  Nation  in  Washing- 
ing— 
1896 

1904  . 

Of  Wallace  roll  of  Cherokee  freed 
men  — 
1902. 

With  Chickasaws,  suggested  by  Hon. 
Jonas  Wolfe  — 
1894. 

1903.. 

1904  . 

With  Choctaw  freedmen  — 
1894  

Confiscation  law,  Chickasaw  Nation: 
1895 

With  Choctaws  at  Atoka— 
1897... 

Conflicting  testimony  in  contest  cases: 
1902  

At  Fort  Smith— 
1895..  . 

1903 

Consolidation  of  contests: 
1903  

Requested  with  Choctaws  at  Tushka 
homa— 
1894  

Constitution: 
For  proposed  State,  terms  of  — 
1896 

1896  

U97 

With  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws   at 
Atoka— 
1897  

Cherokee  Nation,  provisions  of  — 
1899  . 

1901  

With  Creeks— 
1894  

Creek  Nation,  relative  to  citizenship  — 
1899             

With  Creeks  at  Muscogee  — 
1897  

1901  

Thirteenth  amendment  of  — 
1894  

With  Creeks  at  Okmulgee— 
1896  

Construction: 
Of  act  of  June  10,  1896— 
1897  

With  Creeks  at  Washington— 
1900  

With  Creeks,  requested— 
1895  

1899 

1900 

1897  

1901 

With  Five  Tribes,  requested  by  Com 
mission  — 
1895  

1902 

1903  

1904 

With  Seminole  Nation,  at  Wewoka— 
1894  

Of  railroads— 
1902 

1896 

Effect  of— 
1894 

1897  

With  Seminoles,  requested  — 
1897....                     ...?... 

71 

Of  section  5  of  act  of  March  1,1901— 
1902.  .  . 

38 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Construction—  Continued. 
Of  section  6  of  act  of  March  1,  1901— 
]9X4                                             

Page. 
191 

Contest  cases  —  Continued. 
Creek  Nation— 
1899  

Pag.-. 
'20 

Of  act  of  June  28  1898 

1901 

40 

1902 

158 

1902 

47 

Contest  case: 
Brown  v  Collins  decision  of  Depart 

Decision  of  Department  — 
1903  .                                  

139 

ment  in  — 
1902                                                

48 

Decisions  of  Department  in  — 
1902  

126 

1904                                              

192 

Defaults— 

1899 

86 

1901 

101 

1902 

48 

1902 

113 

Grissom  v.  Asbury,  decision  of  Com- 

Digest  of  decisions  — 
1902. 

157 

1901 

42 

1903.                                

157 

Grissom  v    Gibson  decision  of  Com 

1904  

194 

mission  in— 
1901                                          '    

42 

Dismissals— 
1899  

86 

1901 

101 

1901 

41 

1902 

113 

Mayor  v.  Thompson  — 
1904 

193 

Disposition  of  — 
1905 

54 

McNac  v.  Wadsworth,  decision  of  De 
partment  in  — 

Instituted  by  grafters  — 
1905 

45 

1902 

48 

Institution  of  — 

Paquin  v  Davis  — 

1899 

84 

1904 

188 

1901 

.   .            100 

Posey  v  Tucker  — 

1902 

112,  159 

1904 

189 

1903 

52,  124 

Shepherd  v  Marshall  — 

1904                     

120 

1904...               ..            

191 

Notice  of  — 

Tucker  v.  Jamison  — 

1899         .             

85 

1902  

12G 

1901     

100 

Contest  cases: 

1902          

112 

Adjudication  of— 
1904  

48 

Not     to     be    instituted    after 
months  — 

nine 

Answer  or  demurrer  — 

1902  

100 

1899 

85 

1903 

116 

1901 

-     100 

1904 

112 

1902 

112 

Pleadings  in  — 

Appeal  in  — 

1899  

84 

1899 

82  86 

1901 

100 

1901 

97  102 

1C0' 

112 

1902. 

114 

Publication  of  notice  — 

Attorneys  — 

1899 

84 

1899  

86 

Regulations  governing  — 

1901  

102 

1899 

84 

1902  

114 

1901 

100 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1900 

36 

Rehearing  — 
1899 

86 

1904 

39 

1901 

10? 

Complaints  in  — 

1902  

Ill 

1899. 

84 

Right  to  file  — 

1901. 

100 

1902 

158 

1902. 

112 

Rules  of  practice  in  — 

1903. 

158 

1899 

84 

Consolidation  of  — 

1901 

100 

1903  

158 

1902 

112 

Continuance  of— 
1899 

86 

Seminole  Nation  — 
1901 

43 

1901 

101 

1902 

47 

1902..   .. 

113 

Service  of  notice  — 

After    termination    of    Commis 

1899 

85 

sion  — 

1901 

101 

1904... 

10 

1902... 

113 

THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


i '( mti'st  cases — Continued.  Page. 

Settlement  of— 

1902 85 

1903 101 

1904 97 

Creek  Nation— 

1900 47 

1901 46 

1902 73 

1903 83 

1904 79 

Statement  showing  disposition  of — 

1902 124 

1903 161 

Statistics— 

1903 57 

To  be  determined,  by  Commission— 

1896 102 

1897 12, 51 

1898 29 

1899 40,  60 

1900 67 

1901 65,  70, 83, 100 

1902 63,91,102 

1903 73, 107, 116, 118 

1904 69, 103, 112, 114 

Contests: 

Trial  of— 

1899 86 

'  1901 101 

1902 113 

Who  may  institute — 

1903." 158 

Witnesses  in — 

1899 87 

1901 102 

1902 114 

Continuance  in  contest  cases: 

1899 86 

1S01 • 101 , 198 

1902 113 

1903 164 

Contract: 

For  agricultural  lease,  form  of — 

1900 75 

For  grazing  lease,  form  of — 

1900 77 

For  incumbrance  of  Seminole  lands 
invalid— 

1897 77 

1901 54 

1902 81 

1903 91 

1904 87 

For  sale  of  land  of  Mississippi  Choc- 
taws— 

1899 80 

1900; 73 

1901 89 

1902 69 

1903 79 

1904 75 

For   sale   of    incumbrance,    invalid, 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1897 12 

1898 29 


Contract— Continued.  Page'. 

For    sale    of    incumbrance,    invalid, 
Choctau  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1899 40 

1900 67 

1901 83 

1902 G3 

1903. 73 

1904 69 

Controversy  of  Cherokees,  settlement  of, 
by  Court  of  Claims: 

1900 44 

Contingent  expenses,  appropriation  for: 

1899 69 

1900 72 

1901 88 

1902 69 

1903 79 

1904 75 

Convention  of  Choctaw  colored  citizens' 
association: 

1894 23 

Convicts: 

Acceptance  of  patents  for— 

1901 64,69 

1902 100 

1903 116 

1904 112 

Release  of  Seminoles,  desired — 

1897 72 

Selection  of  allotment  for — 

1896... 101 

1897..... 12,51 

1898 28,  37 

1899 39,  50,  60 

1900 36,  4(5,  66 

1901 46,  65, 70, 82 

1902 63,  73, 87, 100, 108 

1903 42, 52, 73, 83, 103, 116, 124 

1904 69,  79, 99, 112, 1120 

Cookson,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1902 30 

Cowan,  B.  It.,  draft  of  bill  for  relief  of 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1894 43 

Correspondence: 

With  Cherokee  Nation— 

1896 125 

1897 29 

Extent  of— 

1905 8 

With  Chickasaw  Nation— 

1896 109 

With  Choctaw  Nation— 

189G 93 

1897 7 

With  Creek  Nation — 

1896 141 

With  Five  Civilized  Tribes— 

1895 59 

With  Five  Tribes- 
Request  for— 

1897 3 

Requested  by  Committee  on  In 
dian  Affairs — 
1894...  1 


40 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Correspondence—  Continued. 
With  Seminole  Nation— 
1896  

Page. 

169 

Court—  Continued.                                            Page. 
Jurisdiction  of— 

1897  

71 

1897                                                       01   oo 

Corruption' 

1898  K;  20 

Of  tribal  courts  — 
1897 

41 

1899  38,  68,  166 
1900  57  58  65 

1901  7-5  74  81 

1894 

17 

1902  53  51  61 

1895 

69  75  78 

1903  <;•{  (;i  71 

1899 

162 

1904  59  f,o  f>7 

1901  

181 

United  States,  in  municipalities  — 

Of  tribal  rolls  

1898  '>i 

1898. 

4 

1899  34 

1904.. 

9 

1900  6i 

19J1  77 

tions 

1902  57 

1900 

13 

1903  67 

Creek  Nation 

1904  63 

1900  

21 

Jurisdiction  over  guardians  — 

1904  44 

Cost  of  Commission's  work: 
1904  

10 

Transfer  of  jurisdiction  from  tribal  to 

Cotton,  production  of: 

United  States— 
1898  g 

1894  

17 

Court: 

Tribal  jurisdiction  over  guardians— 
1904...                                                            4i 

Abolition  of  tribal— 
1897  

39 

Weakness  of  tribal— 
1894                                                                 1  7 

1899 

38  168 

1900 

65 

1901  

81 

1904                                                                 !•> 

1902  

61 

1903  

71 

Court  citizens,  enrollment  of: 
1901                                                                     IQ 

1904  

67 

Extension     of    jurisdiction     recom 
mended  — 
1895 

Court  claimants: 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1900  15 

1902  93 

1903  10; 

1899  

78 
88 

Message  of  Governor  Johnson— 

1Q01 

1901  209 

1902  

81 

Message  of  Hon.  Green  McCurtain— 
1901                                                                215 

1903  
1904  

92 

88 

Court-houses: 

Injunction  of  United  States,  enroll 
ment  of  Cherokee  freedmen  — 
1904. 

24 

Reservation  for  — 
1897  11,14,52 
1898  31 

Jurisdiction  of  — 

1899  42  61 

1899 

57 

1900  39  48  49  69 

District  — 

1901  49  50  85 

1904 

126 

1902  65  75  77  92  107 

Seminole  tribal 

1903  75  85  87  108  l'>3 

1897 

78 

1904  71  81  83  104  119 

1899  

88 

Choctaw     and     Chickasaw     na 

1901  

55 

tions  — 

1902... 

81 

1897  11 

1903.... 

92 

1898  27 

1904  

88 

1899  39 

Tribal— 

1900  66 

1897 

54  88 

1901  82 

Tribal,     transferred     to     United 

1902  6'> 

States— 

1903  70 

1897  

91 

1904  68 

United  States— 
18%  

145 

Court  of  appeals,  decision  in  case  of  Mary 
Jane  Kimberlin* 

1897  

88 

1901...                                                                        198 

THE    FIVE 

Court  of  Claims: 
Decision  in  redistribution  of  funds  to 
Cherokee  freedmen  — 

1S97 

CIVI 

Page. 

85 
26 
33 

7 

118 
137 

70 
92 
130 
136 

7 

63,67 
95 
111 

107 

102 
118 
14,  125 

44 
155 

48 
49 
76 
86 
82 

35 
29 
63 

61 
49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

57 
52 

9 

85 
101 
97 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Creek  agreement  —  Continued. 
Amendment  of  — 
Section  8  of— 
1902.                                        

41 

Page. 

88 
104 
100 

158 
59 

6 
9 
11 

45 
45 

72 
82 
78 

65 
76 

48,  57 
5,6 

143 
10 

145 
146 

148 
152 

161 

163 
161 
157 

157 
176 

07 

156 
175 

Decision,  enrollment  of  intermarried 
Cherokees  — 
1905                           

1903  • 

1904  

Construction  of  section  5— 
1902  

Decision,    enrollment    of     Cherokee 
freedmen— 
1902 

Draft  of— 
1899 

Decision  as  to  rights  of  intermarried 
Cherokees  — 
1905 

Failure  of  chief  to  call  election  for 
ratification  of  — 
1898 

Decision,   suit    of    Eastern    Band    of 
Cherokees  — 
1899          .                             

Failure  of  ratification  — 
1899                   .... 

Of  April  8,  1900— 
1900  .              

1901  

Suit  of  Cherokee  freedmen— 
1899 

Of  March  8,  1900— 
1900 

1901 

1901 

1903 

1902 

1904 

1903 

Suit  of  Delaware  Indians  — 

1898 

1904  

Ratification  of— 
1899 

To  determine  rights  of  — 
Chickasaw  freedmen  — 
1901  

Creek  allotment  certificate,  form  of: 

1899 

1902  

Creek  citizenship  rolls: 
Requested— 

1897 

1903  

1904  

Delaware  Indians— 
1902  

Reopened  — 
1905  

1904                                                  1 

Creek  commission: 
Appointment  of— 
1896  

To  settle  controversy  of  Cherokees  — 
1900 

To  settle  Creek  claims— 
1896. 

1899  

Letter  of  Commission  to,  September  14, 
1896— 
1896 

Coweta: 
Reservation  for  town  site  at  — 
1900  

Letter  to,  September  26,  1896— 
1896  

1901 

1902  

Letter  of  Henry  L.  Dawes  to  — 
November  26,  1896— 
1896  

1903 

1904 

Sale  of  land  for  town-site  purposes  at  — 
1903 

December  15,  1896— 
18%  

1904  

Letter  of  Dawes  Commission  to,  De 
cember  15,  1896— 
1896  

1905  

Coweta  Boarding  School,  reservation  for: 

1899 

Letter  of  Commission  to,  December  16, 
1896— 

1896 

1900 

1901  

1902 

Propositions  of— 
1896 

1903  

1904  

Creek  commissioners,  salary  of: 
1896  

Coweta  Mission: 
Enrollment  of  Creeks  at— 
«1897  :  

Creek  council,  act  of  October  26,  1899,  rel 
ative  to  citizenship: 
1899  

Reservation  for  — 

Creek  agreement: 
Amendment  of— 
1901 

1901  

Creek  delegation  at  Washington: 
1897  

1902  

Creek  domain,  patent  to,  tK-aty  of  1834: 
1899 

1903  

1904  

1901  «... 

42 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Creek  freedmen: 
Enrollment  of — 

1899 

1900 

Number  of— 


1900 

1905 

Provisions  of  treaty  of  1866,  affecting— 

1894 

To  receive  allotments— 

1899 

Creek  funds,  distribution  of: 

1899 

Creek  Indians: 
Number  of— 


Page. 
13,64 


1905 

To  take  improvements  in  Seminole 
Nation — 

1900 

1901 

1903 

1904 

Creek  land  office: 

Establishment  of— 

1899 

At  Muskogee— 

1905 

Creek  Oil  and  Gas  Company,  argument  of: 

1897 

Creek  Orphan  Home,  reservation  for: 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903. :... 

1904 

Creeks: 

Conference  with,  requested— 

1897 

Enrollment  of— 

1899 

Progress  of  enrollment  of — 

1905 

Removal  to  Indian  Territory — 

1899 

Crime,  prevalence  of: 

1894 

1895 

CrowderCity,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903 

Cundiff,  Sidney  J.,  decision    of    United 
States  court  in  citizenship  case  of: 

1899 

1901 

Curtis  Act: 

June  28,  1898— 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904... 


47 
13 
27 
20 

15, 17 
75 

34 


99 

118 


Curtis  Act — Continued.  Page. 

Agreement  with  Creeks — 

1898 36 

1899 45 

Commencement  of  allotment  under— 

1905 5 

Enrollment  of  Cherokee  citizens— 

1899 16 

1901 .' 22 

Grazing  leases — 

1899 26 

Identification    of    Mississippi    Choc- 
taws— 
1899 18 

Inadequacy  of— 

1901 10, 60 

1902 9 

Leasing  of  land — 

1900 30 

Opposition  to — 

1898 5 

Provisions  of — 

1899 9 

Provision  for  leasing  of  land — 

1899 81 

1901 96 

Provision  for  identification  of  Missis 
sippi  Choctaws— 
1899 77 

Section  13  not  applicable  to  Cherokee 
Nation — 

1902 109 

1903 125 

1904 121 

Section  3  not  to  apply  to  Choctaw  and 
Chickasaw  nations — 

1901 CTi,  69 

1902 100 

1903 116 

1904 112 

Not  to  apply  to  property  in   Creek 
Nation— 

1899 65 

Damage: 

By  allotment  to  be  paid   by  United 
States— 
1899 65 

By  mining,  payment  for — 

1896 101 

1897 11 

1898 28 

1899 39 

1900 66 

1901 82 

1902 62 

1903 72 

1904 68 

By  railroads,  payment  for— 

1903 '        93 

1904 90 

Dancing  Rabbit  Creek,  treaty  of: 

1898 10 

1899 73, 74, 78 

1901 20 

Daugherty,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1896...  118 


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43 


Davis,  reservation  for  town  site  at:  Page. 

1*96 118 

Davis,  Chisso  i\,  contest  case  of: 

1903 147 

Davis,  Paquin  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1904 188 

Davison  v.  Walker,  contest  case  of: 

1903 150 

Dawes,  Henry  L.: 

Letter  to  chief  executives  to  the  Five 
Tribes— 

1895 60,61 

Letter  to  chiefs  of  Five  Tribes— 

1896 84 

Letter   transmitting    annual    report 
February,  1897— 

1894 7 

Letter  to  C.  J.  Jarris  July  25,  1894— 

1894 12 

Letter  to  Legus  C.  Ferryman  July  25, 
1894— 

1894 9 

Letter  to  John  F.  Brown  July  28, 1894— 

1894 14 

Letter  to  chiefs  of  Five  Tribes,  May  13, 
1895— 

1895 61 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner,  May  27, 
1895— 

1895 63 

Letter  to  chiefs  of  Five  Tribes,  June  5, 
1895— 

1895 63 

Letter  to  Olosachubbee,  October  30, 
1895— 

1895 i.  67 

Letter  to  Secretary  of  Interior  Septem 
ber  20,  1897— 

1897 86 

Letter  to  Jeff  Gardner — 
July  1,  1896— 

1896 93 

July  10,  1896— 

1896 95 

Letter  to  John   F.  Brown,  July  10, 
1896— 

1896 169 

Letter  to  Isparhecher,  July  10,  1896— 

1896 141 

Letter  to  Samuel  H.  Mayes,  July  10, 
1896— 

1896 125 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosley  July  21,  1896— 

1896 110 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner,  July  10, 
1896— 

1896 95 

Letter  to  Isparhecher,  August  7, 1896— 

1896 142 

Letter  to  Samuel  H.  Mayes,  August  7, 
1896— 

18% 126 

Letter  to  John  F.  Brown,  August  8, 
1896— 

18% 170 

Letter  to  Jeff  Gardner,  Augusts,  1896— 

1896...  % 


Dawes,  Henry  L.— Continued. 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosley,  August  8,1896— 

1896 

Letter  of  John  F.  Brown  to,  Septem 
ber  5,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Septem 
ber  14,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  John  L.  Adair,  September, 
1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  D.  W.  Bushyhead,  September 
16, 1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Septem 
ber  26,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  R.  M.   Harris,  October  23, 
1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Hon.  Green  McCurtain,  Octo 
ber  25, 1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Creek  commission,  Novem 
ber  26, 1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Creek  commission — 
December  15,  1896— 

18% 

December  16,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Cherokee  commission,  De 
cember  17,  1896— 

18% 135, 

Letter  transmitting  annual  report — 

1901 

Report  concerning  cession  of  territory 
by  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw — 

1894 

Report  to  Secretary  of  Interior  con 
cerning  citizenship  roll — 

1897 

Report  to  Secretary  of  Interior,  Octo 
ber  11,  1897— 

1897 

Death  of— 

1903 

Dead  claims,  Mississippi  Choctaws: 

1901...., 

Death: 

Form  of  proof— 

1901 

Of  Hon.  Henry  L.  Dawes— 

1903 

Death  rate: 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1902 

1904 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1901 

Creek  Nation— 
1902. . . 


1904. 


Page. 
Ill 

170 
145 
130 


146 
114 

97 
148 

152, 161 
163 

136, 137 
5 

51 

83 

89 

60 

63,67 

15 


44 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TKIBES. 


Decatur,    identification     of     Mississippi    Page. 
Choctaws  at: 

1901 '20 

1902 23 

Deceased  allottees,  disposition  of  lands: 

1896 102, 118 

Deceased  Indians,  penalty  for  accepting 
lands  for: 

1901 65,70 

Decisions: 

In  Cherokee  enrollment  case — 

1903 24 

In  contest  cases — 

1902 124 

1903 158 

Contest  cases,  digest  of— 

1902 157 

1903 157 

1904 194 

In  Mississippi  Choctaw  case  of  Jack 
Amos  et  al.— 

1898 15 

1899 77 

Of  citizenship  court — 

Choctaw  and   Chickasaw  enroll 
ment  cases— 

1904 12 

Finality  of— 

1905 15 

Case  of  J.  T.  Riddle  et  al.— 

1904 13 

Enrollment  of  Thomas  Brennon— 

1905 12 

Case  of  B.  F.  Thompson— 

1904 132 

Enrollment     of      Thornton"    D. 
Pearce— 

1905 12 

Of  commission  in  Cherokee  enroll 
ment  cases — 

1902. .' 35 

Of  Commission  in— 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  enroll 
ment  eases— 

1902 . 19 

Contest     case     of     Harrison     v. 
Tucker— 

1901 41 

Contest  case  of  Grissom  v.  Asbury — 

1901 42 

Contest  case  of  Grissom  v.  Gibson— 

1901 42 

Mississippi  Choctaw  cases— 

1902 26 

Of  court  of  appeals  in  citizenship  case 
of  Mary  Jane  Kimberlin — 

1901 198 

Of  Court  of  Claims- 
Distribution  of  funds  to  Cherokee 
freedmen — 

1897 85 

Enrollment   of   Cherokee   freed 
men — 

1902 33 

Enrollment  of  intermarriedChero- 
kees — 
1905 7,26 


Decisions— Continued. 
Of  Court  of  Claims- 
Suit  of  Eastern   band  of  Chero- 
kees — 

1899 

1901 

Suit  of  Cherokee  freedmen— 

1899 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  Department- 
Citizenship  case  of  Mary  Elizabeth 
Martin — 

1905 

Citizenship  case  of  Clay  McCoy — 

1905 

Citizenship  case  of  Benjamin  J. 
Vaughn. 

1905 

Citizenship  case  of  Wiley  Adams— 

1905 

In  contest  case  of  Brown  v.  Col 
lins— 

1902 

In  contest  case  of  Gossett  v.  John- 


1902. 


In  contest  case  of  McNac  v.  Wads- 
worth— 

1902 

Enrollment  of  intermarried  freed 
men — 

1905 

In  allotment  contest  cases — 

1902 

1903 

1904 

In  enrollment  case  of  Joseph  D. 
Yeargain  et  al. — 

1904 

Of  Judge  Parker  in  case  of  United 
States  v.  Payne — 

1894 

Of   Judge   Springer     in     citizenship 


1899 

1901 

Of  Supreme  Court- 
In  citizenship  case  of  Wm.  Steph 
ens — 

1899 

1901 

In  Delaware  case— 

1904 

In  suit  of  Eastern  band  of  Chero- 
kees— 

1899 

1901 

In  citizenship  cases— 

1899 

1901 

Of  United  States  Court- 
Finality  of— 
1905... 


Page. 


118 
137 

70 
92 
119 
130 
136 


13 


14 


14 


13 


48 


48 


124 
139 

188 


25 


28 


112 
131 


160 

188 


181 


113 
132 


160 
179 


13 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


45 


Decisions — Continued. 

Of  United  States  court- 
In  citizenship  case  of  E.  J.  Home— 

1899 

1901 

In  citizenship  case  of  Caleb  W. 
Hubbard  et  al.— 

1899 

1901 

In  citizenship  case  of  F.  R.  Rob 
inson— 


1901 

In  citizenship  case  of  W.  R.  Sen- 
ter— 

1899 

1901 

In   citizenship   case   of    Wm.  N. 
Tucker— 

1899 

1901 

In  citizenship  cases — 

1899 

1900 

1901 61,67, 

1902 

1903 

1904 

In  citizenship  cases.invalidity  of— 

1901 

In  citizenship  cases,  message  of 
Governor  Johnson — 

1901 

Deed: 

Issued  to  Mississippi  Choctaws  by  Pres 
ident  Polk— 

1901 

Acceptance  of,  by  allottee— 

1904 

Deeds: 

To  cemeteries— 

1896 

Form  of  Cherokee  allotment — 

1904 

Form   of,   Choctaw  and   Chickasaw 
freedmen — 

1904 

Form   of    Choctaw    and    Chickasaw 
homestead— 

1904 

Form  of  Creek  allotments— 

1902 

To  heirs,  form  of,  Creek  Nation — 

1902 

1903 

Issuance  of— 

1896 

1897 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Issuance  of,  to  Cherokees— 

1899 

1900 

1902... 


Page. 


117 


147 
166 


10") 
124 


100 
119 


106 

125 

91 
16 

110,215 

16,93 

108 

12, 102 

67 


209 


219 
194 

103 
50 

54,55 

51-62 
162 

163 
169 

100,118 

22 
48 
49 
76 
86 
82 

50 

39 

107 


Deeds— Continued. 

Issuance  of,  to  Cherokees— 

1903 123 

1904 41,119 

Issuance  of,  to  Choctaws  and  Chicka- 


Page. 


1902 100 

1903 116 

1904 46,107 

Issuance  of,  to  Creeks— 

1897...  52 


88 


1903 

Recording  of— 

1897 53 

1901 64,69 

Recording  of,  Cherokee  Nation— 

1900 43 

Recording  of,  Creek  Nation — 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 39,5 

1904 

To  Creek  allottees,  preparation  of— 

1904 

To  homesteads,  Creek  Nation,  issu 
ance  of— 

1902... 


87 
103 


1904. 


To  Mississippi  Choctaws,  issuauce  of — 

1901 63 

To  Seminoles,  issuance  of — 

1897 78 

1899 .. 88 

1901 55 

1902 81 

1903 92, 126 

1904 30, 87, 122 

To  town  lots,  issuance  of — 

1896 119 

1897 77 

1898 22 

1899 35,52,62,88 

1900 62 

1901 55,64,69,78 

1902 58, 81,  97 

1903 91,113 

1904 64, 88, 105 

Deed  of  trust: 

Conveying  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
lands  to  United  States— 
1896 100 

Objection  to  be  Chickasaw — 

1897 22 

Deer  v.  Sawyer,  contest  case  of: 

1903 157 

Default,  contest  cases: 

1899 86 

1901 101 

1902 113 

Delay  in  enrollment  of  Choctaw  and 
Chickasaw  account  of  protests  of  at 
torneys: 

1904...  12 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Delano,  C.: 
Report  to  Senate  Committee  on  Indian 

Page. 

Delaware  segregation: 
1900 

I'age. 
37 

Affairs,  concerning   Choctaw    and 

1904.. 

34 

Chickasavv  freedmen  — 
1894  

26 

Allotment  of  — 
1903 

45 

Report     concerning     Choctaw     and 
Chickasaw  freedmen  — 

Amendment  of— 
1904  

171 

1894. 

44 

Delaware  claims: 

1904 

181 

Delay  in  allotment  caused  by— 
1905  

40 

Effect  of,  on  negotiations  — 
1897 

38 

To  be  determined  by  court  of  claims— 
1904 

125 

Fraud  in— 
1904 

00 

Reopened  — 
1905.. 

5  6 

Report  of  Commission  December  31, 
1903 

Delaware  improvements: 

1904 

169 

Sale  of— 
1904  

124 

Delawares,  number  of: 
1905  

26 

Opinion  of   Assistant  Attorney-Gen 
eral  as  to  sale  of  — 

Demurrer  in  contest  cases: 
1899  

85 

1905 

42 

1901 

100 

Delaware  Indians: 

1902  

112 

Allotment  to— 
1899  

50  61 

Denison  suggested  as  place  for  conference 
with  Choctaws1 

1900  

36 

1897 

7 

Allotment  of— 
1904  

124 

Departmental  decision: 
Enrollment  case  of  — 

Claims  of  — 
1904 

181 

Wiley  Adams— 
1905 

13 

Enrollment  of  — 
1899  . 

17 

Clay  McCoy— 
1905 

]4 

1905  

24 

Mary  Elizabeth  Martin 

Number  of— 

1905  

13 

1899  

12 

Benjamin  J  Vaughn 

1904  

26 

1905 

14 

Rights  to  be  determined  by  court  of 
claims  — 
1902  

102 

Enrollment   of    intermarried    freed 
men— 
1905 

26 

1903 

118 

1904 

114 

Right  to  share  in  funds  of  — 

1905.            

15 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1899  

70 

Enrollment  of  Cherokee  freedmen  — 
1901  

23 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1901  

92 

Concerning  enrollment  of  freedmen  — 

1897 

84 

1903..  

130 

Departmental   letter  concerning  enroll 

1904  

136 

ment  of  Cherokee  freedmen' 

Sale  of  improvements  by  — 

1902 

122 

1904  

36 

1903 

134 

1905  

7  41 

1904 

140 

Segregation  of  land  for— 
1902  

102 

Departmental  order  closing   citizenship 
rolls' 

1903  

118 

1905  

28 

1904  

114 

Delaware  lands: 
Reservation  of  — 

purposes  at: 
1904 

29 

1897  

38 

1905 

63 

Sale  of— 
1904  

10 

Depositions: 

Segregation  of— 

1896.   ..  . 

85 

1898  

7  25 

1897 

98 

1899  

38 

1899 

67 

1900  

65 

1900 

56 

1901  

81 

1901 

72 

1902  

61 

1902 

52 

1903  

71 

1903 

62 

1904  

67 

1904... 

58 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Depositions— Continued.  Page. 

In  Mississippi.  Choctaw  cases,  regula 
tion  governing — 

1902 117 

Descent  and  distribution: 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1899 53 

1902 10'2 

1903 118 

1904 114 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1901 62, 67 

1 902 I1 0 

1903 106 

1904 102 

Creek  Nation— 

1899 64 

1900 46 

1901 47 

1902 73, 83, 85 

1903 83, 99, 101 

1904 95, 97 

Laws  of— 

1896 118 

Mississippi  Choctaws — 

1901 63,67 

Seminole  Nation — 

1900 54 

1901 59 

1902 83 

1903 '    99 

1904 89 

Designation  of  homesteads: 

Creek  Nation— 

1902 40 

Seminole  Nation— 

1904 30 

1905 53 

Destruction  of  pine  forests: 

1 896 69 

Determination  of  citizenship: 

Act  of  Choctaw  national  council — 

1895 88 

Appointment  of  committee  for — 

1894 9 

In  Cherokee  Nation — 

1894 11,12 

1899 128 

By  Commission— 

1895 87 

Dewey,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

1905 63, 65 

Determination  of  citizenship: 

By  Commission,  act  of  June  10,  1896— 

1896 83,84,86 

Chickasaw  Nation— 

1896 Ill 

Claims,  Creek  Nation— 

1896 143 

Development  of  Indian  Territory: 

1901 7 

Diagram: 

Of  allotment  selection- 
Cherokee  Nation— 

1903 171 

Creek  Nation — 

1899 60,62,64 


Diagram — Continued.  Page. 
Showing  irregular  holdings  — 
Prior  to  allotment— 

1901 216 

Subsequent  to  allotment— 

1901 219 

Dickey,  A.  W.,  reimbursement  for  service: 

1897 99 

1899 68 

1900 .57 

1901 73 

1902 53 

1903 63 

1904 59 

Digest  of  decisions  in  contest  cases: 

1902 157 

1903 157 

1904 194 

Disbarment  of  agents  and  attorneys: 

1 901 1 03 

1902 115 

1903 167 

1904 197 

Disbursing  agent: 

Appropriation  for — 

1900 73 

1901 89, 91 

1902 69, 71, 84 

1903 79, 81, 100, 125 

1904 75,  77, 95, 121 

Provision  for— 

1897 99 

1899 68 

1900 57 

1901 73 

1902 53 

1903 63 

1904 59 

Disbursements: 

March  3,  1896,  to  January  1,  1901— 

1901 218 

Of  tribal  funds — 

1898 •      23 

1899 36 

1900 63 

1901 79 

1902 59 

1903 69 

1904 05 

Statement  of— 

1902 165 

Statement  of,  for  year  ended  June  30, 
1903— 

1903 192 

Statement  of,  for  year  ended  June  30, 
1904— 

1904 56 

Year  ended  June  30— 

1905 65 

Discovery  of  gas,  effect  of,  on  allotment: 

1905 40 

Discovery  of  oil,  effect  on  allotment: 

1905 6,40 

Dismissal  in  contest  cases: 

1899 86 

1901 101 

1902 113 

1903 164 

1904...  198 


48 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Dissolution: 
Of  Commission  — 
1904  

Page. 

7,10 

Disposition  —  Continued. 
Of  reservation  — 
1900.  .  . 

Page. 
43 

Of  tribal  government— 
1894 

10 

Of  residue  land- 
Creek  Nation  — 

1896 

97  105 

1899 

59 

1899. 

27 

1900 

46 

1902  

108 

1901 

47 

1903  

124 

1902. 

74 

•         1904 

120 

1903 

84 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1904  

10,80 

1896 

132 

1905 

7  51 

1899 

55 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1900. 

42 

1899 

50 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 

1900..     . 

36 

1897  

16 

1898  

34 

1899  

44 

1896 

120 

1900 

67 

1901 

71 

Of  royalties  on  gas— 

1896  

120 

1903 

77 

Of  royalties  on   oil,   Chickasaw   Na 

1904  

73 

tion  — 

1896  

120 

1894  

9 

Of  surplus  land  — 

1896  

145 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 

1899  

64 

1902                                  

90 

Seminole  Nation  — 

1903             

106 

1894 

13 

1904 

102  l'^5 

1903 

10  126 

1904 

121 

1897 

51  52 

Disposition: 

1904  

123 

Of  capitol  buildings  — 
1900  

41 

Seminole  Nation— 
1904 

11 

Capitol  buildings,  Cherokee  Nation— 
1899  

56 

Of  town  lots— 
1896 

147 

Cherokee  Female  Seminary— 
1900  

41 

Of  town  lots,  Creek  Nation  — 
1896 

154  155 

Cherokee  Male  Seminary— 
1900 

41 

Of  town  sites  desired  by  Chickasaw.s  — 
1897 

23 

Of  coal  and  asphalt  lands  — 
1901 

124 

Of  town-site  fund,  Cherokee  Nation  — 
1899 

52 

Of  Colored  High  School— 
1900. 

41 

Of  tribal  funds,  Creek  Nation  — 
1899 

59 

Of  excessive  holdings  — 

1902  

87 

1899  

83 

1903 

103 

1901  

98 

1904 

9U 

Of  funds,  Cherokee  Nation— 
1900  

42 

Of   tribal  funds,  right   of   Cherokee 
freedmen  to  share  in  — 

Of  funds  derived  from  sale  of  ceme 

1899  

70 

teries  — 

1901 

92 

1896 

103 

1903 

130 

Of  jail  at  Tahlequah  — 

1904 

136 

1900  

41 

Of  town-site  fund,  Choctaw  and  Chick 

Of  lands  of  deceased  allottees  — 
1896  

118 

asaw  nations  — 
1897  

14 

Of  mineral  lands  — 

1898 

31 

1896 

147 

1899 

41 

Of  mineral  lands  in  Creek  Nation  — 

1900 

68 

1896.        .   .. 

154  155 

1901 

S5 

Of  orphan  fund,  Cherokee  Nation  — 

1902  

65 

1900  

40 

1903  

75 

Of  public  buildings— 

1904  

71 

1899 

56 

Of  tribal  funds  act  of  Choctaw  coun 

1900 

42 

cil— 

: 

Of   public    buildings    Cherokee  Na 

1895                               

88 

tion— 
1900... 

41 

Of  tribal  funds  — 
1896.  .  . 

1 
\    114 

Disposition — Continued. 
Of  unallotted  land — 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Distribution: 

Of  tribal  funds— 

1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Method  of— 

1896 

1898 

Cherokee  Nation — 

'1894 

1896 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Chickasaw  Nation— 

1894 .'. 

1896 

Choctaw  Nation — 

1894 

1896 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Creek  Nation— 

1894 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Seminole  Nation — 

1894 

1897 

1899 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

District  attorney: 

To  prosecute  excessive  land  holders — 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

To  prosecute  violation  of  prohibition 
laws — 

1898 

1899 

15013—06 i 


CIVI 
Page. 

97 
66 
55 
71 
51 
61 
57 

17 
35 
44 

68 
71 
73 

77 
87 

105 

8 

11 
132 

108 
124 
120 

10 
120 

10 
97 
100 
116 
112 

9 
51 
65 
50 
51 
78,87 
87,88 
84,99 

13 

78 
88 
55 
81 
91 
87 

23 
36 
63 
79 
59 
69 
65 

21 
34 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

District  attorney  —  Continued. 
To  prosecute  violation  of  prohibition 
laws  — 
1900  

49 

Page. 

61 
77 
57 
67 
63 

126 

77 
88 
55 
81 
91 
87 

77 
88 
55 
81 
91 
87 

20 
34 
61 
77 
57 
67 
63 

130,  139 

45 
45 
72 

82 
78 

140 
135 

38 
118 

24 
36 
23,63 
79 
60 
70 
66 

13 

64 

29 
63 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904  

District  court,  jurisdiction  of: 
1904 

District  schools: 
Reservation  for  — 
1897 

1899. 

1901  

1902  

1903.....*.  

1904 

Seminole  Nation,  provisions  for  — 

1897 

1899. 

1901  

1902  

1903  

1904  

Documents,  provision  for  recording: 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902..   .                         ... 

1903  

1904  

Doil  v.  Berryhill,  contest  case  of: 
1902                                                         129 

Draft  of  proposed  agreement  with  Creeks: 
1900 

1901 

1902 

1903.                          

1904  

Drew  v.  Canard,  contest  case  of: 
1903  

Duncan,  W.  P.,  letter  to  Commission: 
1896 

Duncan,   W.   F.,   letter   to    Commission, 
October  28,  1897: 
1897                           .                 

Duncan,  reservation  for  townsite  at: 
1896  

Dunn  roll: 
Confirmation  of— 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901.                                    

1902  

1903..  

1904 

Imperfections  of— 
1899                                              .  .     . 

To  govern  enrollment  of  Creek  f  reed- 
men  — 
1899 

Dustin  (Spokogee),  alienation  of  land  for 
town-site  purposes  at: 
1904                               

1905... 

50 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Dustin,  enrollment  of  children  at: 
1905  

Page. 
30 

Educational  institutions,  reservation  for, 
in  Cherokee  Nation: 

Page. 

Duties  of  Commission' 

1899 

54 

1895 

76 

Edwards    Henry    et  al     protest  against 

Act  of  March  3,  1893— 
1897  

97 

enrollment  as  Choctaws: 
1897  

20 

1899 

7  66 

Election- 

1900                                

55 

For  ratification  of  — 

9             1901                

71 

Agreement  — 

1902  

51 

1898  

26 

1903 

61 

1899 

38 

1904 

57 

1900 

65 

Enlargement  of  — 

1902 

61 

1896  

83 

1903 

71 

1898  

6 

1904  

67 

1905 

5 

Atoka  agreement 

To  minors,   prisoners,   convicts,  and 

1899  

9 

incompetents  — 

1901  

81 

1896                                    

101 

Cherokee  agreement  — 

Duty  of  United  States  to   establish  gov 

1899 

10  58 

ernment  in  Indian  Territory: 

1900     .  . 

44 

1895 

84 

1902 

109 

1897 

99 

1903 

125 

1899     ..            . 

68 

1904 

121 

1900  

57 

Choctaw-Chickasaw  agreement-  —  • 

1901  

73 

1901 

65  70 

1902  

53 

1902 

100 

1903 

63 

1903 

116 

1904 

59 

1904 

112 

Duty  of  United  States  Government  to 
ward  Indians: 

Greek  agreement  — 
1899  

9,65 

1895            

77 

1900 

53 

Duties  of  Commission,  addition  to: 

1902 

88 

1905  

5 

1904 

100 

Dwight  Mission,  school  reservation  for: 
1899 

5i 

Provision  for,  at  Wewoka  — 
1899 

90 

1902 

103 

1901 

58 

1903 

119 

1902 

111 

1904 

115 

1903 

129 

Eastern  Band  of  Cherokees: 

1904  

129 

Decision  of  Court  of  Claims  in  suit  of  — 
1899  

118 

Qualification  of  voters  at  municipal— 
1896 

103 

1901  

137 

Regulations  for  in  Cherokee  Nation 

Status  of— 

1899 

58 

1899 

96  113 

Provisions  for  municipal  — 

1901 

132 

1895 

87 

1896 

103 

Choctaws  at' 

1898 

20 

1902  

23 

1899  3-1 

58  63 

Educational  facilities: 

1900  

61 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1901  

77 

1902 

105 

1902 

57 

1903 

121 

1903 

67 

1904 

117 

1904 

63 

Desired  by  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
freedmen  — 

Tribal— 
1895  .   . 

65 

1894. 

32  38 

Elm  Springs  Mission  School   reservation 

Lack  of,  for  Choctaw  freedmen— 
1894  

32 

for: 
1899  

54 

Lack  of,  for  white  children  — 

1902  

103 

1894 

19 

1903 

119 

1895 

72 

1904 

115 

1897  

88 

Emahaka  Academy 

1898  

9 

Appropriation  for  — 

1899  

28 

1897.            

77 

1901 

8 

1899 

88 

Requested  — 

1901  

55 

1896.  .  . 

159 

1902... 

81 

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Emulwka  Academy— Continued.  Page. 
Appropriation  for— 

1903 91 

1904 88 

Reservation  for— 

1897 77 

1 899 88 

1901 55 

1902 81 

1903 91 

1904 88 

Emancipation: 

Of  freedmen,  conditions  of — 

1894 46 

Of  Choctaw  freedmen— 

1894 24 

Embezzlement,    jurisdiction    of    United 
States  court  over: 

1890 16 

1897 54 

1899 31,43,63 

1900 58 

1901 74 

1902 54 

1903 64 

1904 60 

Embracery: 

Jurisdiction  of    United  States  court 
over— 

1897 16,54 

1898 16,33 

1899 31,43,64 

1900 58,70 

1901 74,86 

1902 54,66 

1903 64,76 

1904 60,72 

Jurisdiction  of  United  States  courts 
over,  in  Seminole  Nation — 

1897 78  | 


1899. 
1901. 
1902. 
1903. 
1904. 


To  be  tried  in  United  States  court— 

1896 104 

Emmett,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1896 118 

Enforcement  of  tribal  laws: 

1898 26 

1899 38,168 

1900 65 

1901 81 

1902 61 

1903 71 

1901 67 

Enid  and  Anadarko  Railroad  act: 

1903 10,93 

1904 89 

Enlargement  of  Commission: 

1897 98 

1899 67 

1900 56 

1901 72 

1902 52 

1903 62 

1904.... -. 58 


Enrollment:  Page. 

Of  Cherokees  at  Muscogee — 

1905 23 

Of  Cherokee  freedmen— 

1897 93 

1901 23 

1902 32 

1904 166 

Of  Cherokees,  progress  of — 

1905 23 

Of   Cherokee    freedmen    injunction, 
United  States  court— 

1904 24 

Of  Cherokee  instruction   of  Depart 
ment — 

1902 122 

1903 134 

1904 HO 

Of  Cherokee  freedmen— 

Order  of  Courts  of  Claims— 

1899 72 

1901 94 

1903 132 

1904 138 

Restraining  order  of  United  States 
court— 

1902 .-. 119 

1903 136 

1904 142 

Of  Chickasaws — 
At  Ardmore — 

1901 12 

Progress  of — 

1905 18 

Of  Chickasaw  freedmen— 

1897 93 

1898 24 

1899 37 

1900 64 

1901 63,80 

1 902 1 5, 60, 95 

1903 .' 16,  70,  111 

1904 18, 66, 107 

1905 21 

Of  children — 

1905 6 

Cherokee  Nation — 

1897 36 

1899 53 

Creek  Nation— 

1899 64 

1901 9 

1902 36, 83, 86 

1903 ...     99, 102 

1904 95,98 

Of  intermarried  whites— 

1905 16 

Under  act  of  March  3 — 

1905.. 5,  6, 19, 30 

Of  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws — 
Status  of— 

1902 164 

Progress  of— 

1905 10 

Of  Choctaws,  progress  of — 

1905 16 


52 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Enrollment  —  Continued. 
Of  Choctaw  freedmen  — 
1898  

Page. 
24 

Enrollment—  Continued. 
Of  citizens- 
Provision  for  — 

Page. 

1899 

37 

190? 

52 

1900 

64 

1903 

62 

1901 

80 

1904 

68 

1902                                       

14,60 

Report    of    Commission     July   9 

1903                                    

70 

1897— 

1904                                

17,66 

1897  

83 

Progress  of  — 
1905        

21 

Seminole  Nation— 
1899  

12 

1900 

12 

Of  citizens  — 

1901 

30 

1896             .                            

83 

Work  incident  to  — 

18Q8 

93 

1898  

6,7 

1899                     .   .                

36 

Of  court  citizens— 

1901  

13 

1901                     

8,79 

Of  Creek  freedmen— 

KG 

1898  

24 

1899  

36 

9fifi 

1900  

23,63 

1901 

79 

Delay  of  protests  of  Choctaw  and 

1902 

60 

Chickasaw  attorneys- 

1903  

70 

1904 

66 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1899 

16  53 

Of  Creeks  order  of  Indian  agent  — 

1897  

65 

1901 

22 

Of  Creeks,  progress  of  — 

1905  

27 

1903 

18  120 

Of  lost  Creeks— 

1905  

28 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 

Of  Delawares— 
1899  

17 

1899  .              

14 

1900  

12 

Of  freedmen  — 

-10QK 

1901  10, 

12,  61,  66 

1902  10, 

12,13,92 

1903  11,1 

3,  14,  108 

1899 

•Jfl 

1904  11,16 

,  104,  130 

1900 

fiQ 

Creek  Nation— 

1901 

72  79 

1897  

57,64 

1902 

59 

1899  

13,64 

1903 

63  69 

1900  

19,  50 

1901  ."  

28,  51 

1902  

35,78 

1903  

28,  88 

1897 

83 

1904.             

20,84 

Effect  of  tribal  laws  on  — 

1897  

93 

1898 

3 

Work  incident  to  — 

Final  rolls  — 

1898 

6 

1901 

91 

Indians  act  of  June  10  1896  — 

1902 

71 

1896                                                       h 

3  84  86 

1903 

81 

Of  intermarried  Cherokees  — 

1904 

77 

1904 

26 

Jurisdiction  of  Commissioner  — 
1897 

83 

Of  intermarried  whites,  Choctaw  and 

Progress  of  — 

1899  

15 

1897 

92 

Of  Nar-wal-le-pe-es 

1899  . 

10 

1902 

86 

1901.. 

8 

1903 

102 

1903...   . 

10 

1904 

98 

1904  

11 

1905  

8 

Provision  for  — 

1900  

54 

1897 

98 

1901 

59 

1899                       ..   . 

67 

1902 

^3 

1900  

56 

1903 

99 

1901... 

72 

1904... 

89 

THE   FIV] 

Enrollment  —  Continued. 
Of  Seminoles  — 
Progress  of  — 
1905 

3   CIVI 
Page. 

32 

86 
102 
98 

86 
102 
98 

86 
102 

98 

66 
36 

60 

50 
10,36 
85 
101 
97 

51,52 
59 
45 
46 
73 
83 
31,79 

9 
106 
105 
146,  148 

159 
86,  105 
102,121 
117 

21 
34 
61 

77 
57 
67 
63 

54 

70 
18 

LIZED   TRIBES. 

Establishment  of  land  office: 
At  Boggy  Depot— 
1899  

53 

Page. 
109 

1901  

128 

Of  Mary  Washington— 
1902 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1903 

39 

1903 

1904 

32 

1904              :  

In  Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1903  

50 

Of  Walter  Washington  - 
1902 

In  Choctaw  Nation— 
1903  

50 

1903 

1904 

At  Wewoka,  Seminole  Nation  — 
1901.                            

31 

Of  Willie  Washington— 
1902  

1902 

43 

1903  

1904 

31 

1904  

Establishment  of  town  sites: 
1896  

..  102,154 

Enrollment  camps,  policemen  to  preserve 
peace  at: 
1897 

1897  

53 

8 

1898  

Enrollment  cards,  form  of: 
1899  

1900 

28 

Enrollment   certificates,    Creek   Nation, 
form  of: 
1899  

1903 

34 

Appropriation  for— 

Equalization  of  allotments: 
1899  

1901 

89 

1900  

1902  

1902  

1903        

Establishment  of  town  site: 
At  Bristow— 
1899  

61 

1904  

Enrollment  of  allotments,  Creek  Nation: 

1899 

At  Checotah— 
1899  

61 

1901 

At  Eufaula— 
1899  

61 

1903                                                          

At  Gibson  Station— 
1899  

61 

1Q04 

Errors  in  final  rolls: 
1905 

At  Holdenville— 
1899  

61 

Equipment,  repairs  of: 
1901 

At  Lee— 
1899  

61 

Equity  powers  of  United  States  court: 
1896 

At  Muskogee— 
1899  !  

61 

Escoe  v.  Farmer,  contest  case  of: 

At  Okmulgee— 
1899  

61 

Establishment  of  public  highways: 

At  Red  Fork— 
1899  

61 

1902 

At  Sapulpa— 
1899  

61 

iqnq 

1904                                                                     .      . 

At  Tulsa— 
1899 

61 

Establishment  of  schools: 
In  incorporated  towns  — 
1898 

At  Wagoner— 
1899  

61 

1899  

At  Wewoka— 
1899  

89 

1900 

1Q01 

1901  

58 

1902  

110 

1QAO 

1903  

128 

1Q04 

1904  

128 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1899 

In  Cherokee  Nation  — 
1896  

132 

In  Creek  Nation— 
1897 

1900 

37 

190'> 

105 

Establishment  of  land  offices: 
1899... 

1903 

121 

1904... 

117 

54 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Establishment  of  town  sites: 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1901 

Page. 

64,68 
97 
113 
109 

145 
61 

46 
47 
74,86 
84,  102 
80.98 

27 

64 
64 

5 

25 
8,36 

43 

158 

61 
49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

52 

29 
63 

36 
130,  145 
30 
58,64 
61 

64 

63 
153 

46 

52 
61 

Eufaula  High  School,  reservation  for— 
Continued. 
1900 

Page. 

49 
50 
76 

86 
82 

158 
194 

40 
105 
121 
117 

52 
52 
79 
89 
85 

69 

87 
36 
194 

90,91 
106 
102,  103 

84 
99 
67 
56 
72 
53 
63 
59 

158 

83 
98 

91 
8 
45 

172 

61 

35 
10 
102 
118 
33,  114 

46 
46 
73 
79 

1902 

1901 

1903                                              --  -- 

1902 

1904 

1903 

Creek  Nation— 
1896                    

1904  

Evidence  in  contest  cases: 
1903 

1899 

1900 

1904 

1901 

Examination  of  school-teachers: 
Cherokee  Nation  — 
1900 

1909                                                  

1903                                                  -   .- 

1904                                

1902 

Under  act  of  March  3,  1903— 
1904                           

1903. 

1904  

Establishment  of  United  States  court: 
At  Eufaula— 

loqq 

Creek  Nation— 
1900  

1901  

At  Tulsa— 

1899 

1902 

1903  

Estimate  of  time  required  to  finish  work 
of  Commission: 
1905                                 

1904 

Excessive  holdings: 
1895 

1897        .     . 

Estimation  of  timber: 
1899                       

1900 

1904  .           .   . 

1901                 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1902  

Progress  of— 

Estoppel  in  contest  cases: 

1903  

1904  

Euchee  Boarding  School,  reservation  for: 
1899  

Commission  directed  to  report  upon— 
1895  

18Q7 

1900  

18QQ 

1901  

1900 

1902  1  

1901 

1903  

1902 

1904  

1903 

Euchee  Institute,  reservation  for: 

1897 

1904  

Construction  of  statutes— 
1902  

Eufaula: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at— 
1904 

Disposition  of— 
1899 

1901 

1905 

Effect  of  — 

Appointment  at,  for   enrollment  of 
citizens  — 
1902  

1897 

Influence  of— 
1894  

Conference  at  — 
1896  

Investigation  of  — 
1902  

Enrollment  of  children  at— 
1905 

Of  Robert  L.  Owen,  Francis  B.  Fite, 
Edward  L.  Halsell,  Jacob  H.  Bar- 
ties— 
1904 

Enrollment  of  Creeks  at— 
1897 

Establishment  of  town  site  at  — 
1899  ..              

Excessive  holdings  of  land: 
Cherokee  Nation  — 
1899          

Establishment  of  United  States  court 
at— 
1899  

1900          

1901  

International  council  at— 
1895 

1902  

1903 

1896 

1904 

Reservation  of  town  site  — 
1900 

Creek  Nation  — 
1900      

Eufaula  High  School,  reservation  for: 
1897 

1901  

1902  

1899... 

1904... 

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Excessive  holdings  of  land— Continued.       Page. 
Penalty  for — 

1898 '^3 

1899 36 

1900 63 

1901 79 

1902 59 

1903 69 

1904 65 

Excessive  land  holding: 

By  intermarried  whites— 

1894 17,18 

Provisions  of  Curtis  Act — 

1899 81 

1901 96 

Excessive  land    holders  to  select   allot 
ments: 

1904 33 

Expenditures  of  Commission,  March  3, 
1893,  to  January  1,  1901: 

1901 218 

Expense   of  allotment  to  be  borne   by 
United  States: 

1896 103,118 

1899 •  51,60 

1900 42 

Expense  of  appraisement  of  land: 

1896 103 

Expense  of  appraising  and  disposing  of 
town  lots: 

1896 103 

Expense  of  classification  of  land: 

1896 103 

Expense  of  Commission's  work: 

1904 10 

Expense  of  establishing  town  sites  to  be 
borne  by  United  States: 

1899 51, 63 

1902 84,107 

1903 100,123 

1904 96, 119 

Expense  of  platting  town  sites  to  be  borne 
by  United  States: 

1900 51 

1901 52 

1903 75 

1904 84,88 

Expense  of  survey  of  town  lots: 

1896 103 

Expense  of  surveying  of  town  sites  to  be 
borne  by  United  States: 

1896 . . . : 103, 118 

1897 54 

Factor,    Thomas,     appointed    Seminole 
town-site  commissioner: 

1899 89 

1901 57 

1902 110 

1903 128 

1904 128 

Failure  of  Cherokees  to    enter  into  an 
agreement: 

1897 34 

Failure  of  Chickasaw  Nation  to  act  on 
propositions  of  Commission: 

1894 10 

Failure  of  tribal  governments: 

1894 17,20 


Failure  of  negotiations: 

With  Cherokees,  cause  of— 

1897 

With  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws— 

1897 

With  Indians— 

1895 

Failure  of   ratification  Cherokee  agree 
ment,  April  9,  1900: 

1901 

Falls  City,  alienation  of  land  for  town- 
site  purposes  at: 

1905 

Fair  grounds,  establishment  of,  at  Vinita: 

1900 

Fairland: 

United    States  commissioners  to    be 
located  at — 

1899 

Enrollment  of  Cherokees  at— 

1900 

1901 

Farmer,  Escoe  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1903 

Fawn,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1902 

Featherston,  alienation  of  land  for  town- 
site  purposes  at: 

1905 

Fee  for  marriage  license: 

1901 

Fees  claimed  by  J.  Hale  Sypher: 

1904 

Fees  of  attorneys  to  be  fixed  by  Court  of 
Claims: 

1904 

Female  seminary,  Cherokee  Nation,  pay 
ment  for  improvements  of: 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Field  notes,  classification  of  lands: 

1899 

Field  work: 

Allotment  of  land  to  full  blood  Chero 
kees— 

1905 

Enrollment  of  Cherokees— 

1905 

Addresses  at  Hartshorn  and  Atoka— 

1895 

Addresses  to  Cherokees— 

1894 

Addresses  to  Chickasaws— 

1894 

Addresses  to  Choctaws— 

1894 

Addresses  to  Indians— 

1894 

Classification  of  lands — 

1900 

1901 

1902 

Enrollment  of  Cherokees — 

1900 

1901 

1902... 


Page. 


77 


63,65 
42 

57 

25 
23 

146 

30 

63 
14 

125 

125 


109 
125 
121 

22,23 


56 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Field  work  —  Continued. 
Enrollment  of  children,  act  of  March 
2 

Page. 

Financial  statement  of  Commission—  Con. 
June  30,  1902— 
1902 

Page. 

165 

1905                                           

19,  30 

Year  ended  June  30,  1903— 

Enrollment  of  Choctaws  and  Chicka- 

1903                      

192 

saws— 
1900 

12 

Year  ended  June  30,  1904— 
1904 

56 

1901                                              

12 

Year  ended  June  30  1905  — 

Enrollment  of  Creeks  — 

1905 

65 

1897                                      

57 

Firewood  purchase  of  for  field  parties' 

1901                          

28 

1901  

105 

1902                 

36 

Fite,  Francis  B.,  excessive  holding  of: 

Enrollment  of  citizens  — 

1904  

172 

1898                                           

7 

Five  Tribes  settlement  of  claims  desired' 

1899                                      

12 

1896 

158 

1905                             

8 

Flavoring  extracts  amount  allowed  field 

Estimation  of  timber— 
1901                           

36 

parties: 
1901                          

106 

1902 

44 

Identification    of    Mississippi   Choc- 

1902               

30 

taws  — 
1902                                         

23 

Flour,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 
1901 

105 

Improvement  survey— 
1901                               

38 

Foote,  Henry  S.,  opinion  in  citizenship 
case  of' 

Regulations  governing  — 
1901             

105 

The  Brannon,  Thos.— 
1904 

130 

Rules  and  regulations  governing  ap 
praisement  of  land  — 

Lula  Brahern  — 
1904               

131 

1901                                             

108 

B  F  Thompson 

Subdivisional  survey  — 

1904          

132 

1899                                      

21,22 

1902                        

43 

1900 

75 

Fife,  Dorsey,  appointed  Seminole  town- 
site  commissioner: 
1899 

89 

Form  of  allotment  blanks,  Choctaw  and 
Chickasaw  nations: 
1903 

1Q01 

57 

190-> 

110 

Nation* 

1903                                              

128 

1903 

175 

1904                                        

128 

Final  rolls: 
Commissioner   of   Indian  Affairs   to 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1904 

50 

have  copy  of  — 
1897  

99 

Creek  Nation— 
1902 

162 

1899  

67 

1903 

168 

1900                                                .  .. 

56 

1901  

72 

1899                                    

60 

1902                                    

53 

1903                  

63 

tion: 

1004 

59 

1903  

174 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1903 

23 

Form  of  application  for  allotment: 
1899  

64 

1904                                                  .   .. 

24 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1903               

172 

1904                  

26 

Form  of  attorney's  oath: 

Creek  Nation 

1901 

103 

1902 

37 

1902                             .          

115 

1903 

30 

1903                           

167 

1904 

23 

1904                 

197 

Errors  in  — 
1905 

9 

Form  of  birth  affidavits: 
1899  

34 

Preparation  of  — 
1905 

9 

Form  of  citizenship  certificate,  Cherokee 
Nation: 

1903           .          

170 

1904                         

11 

Form  of  complaint  in  contest: 

1899 

84 

March  3.  1893,  to  January  1,  1901— 
1901... 

218 

Form  of  contract  for  grazing  lease: 
1900... 

77 

THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


57 


Form  of  deed  to  heirs,  Creek  Nation: 
1  90° 

Page. 
168 

169 

60 
36 

54,55 
176 
50 

Fort  Gibson  —  Continued. 
Reservation  for  town  cito  nt  — 
1899 

Page. 
54 

99,116 

88 
88 

17 

7 

88 
148 
14 
31 
32,42 
59,  69 
75  85 

1903 

Form  of  enrollment  certificate,  Creek  Na 
tion: 
1899                         

Fort  Smith: 
Conference  at— 
1896  98, 

Form  of  enrollment  record: 
1899 

Conference  of  Chickasaw  delegates 
at— 
1895  

Form  of  freedmen  patent,  Choctaw  and 
Chickasaw  nations: 
1904 

Conference  with  Choctavvs  at— 
1895  

Form  of  homestead  certificate,  Cherokee 
Nation: 
1903        

Given  authority  over  certain  lands  in 
Choctaw  Nation— 
1898  

Form  of  homestead  deed: 
Cherokee  Nation— 
1904 

Removal  of  headquarters  from— 
1897 

Removal  of  headquarters  to  — 
1895  

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1904                                                

51,52 

162 
168 

84 

103 
115 
167 
197 

86,88 
90 

82 
219 

72 
105 
18 

15 
12 

110 
159 

64 

78 

130,  136 
34 

25 
23 

33 
41 
34 

1896  

Creek  Nation— 
1902             

1897  

1898  

1904  

1899  

Form  of  notice  of  contest  and  summons: 
1899 

1900 

1901 

Form  of  oath  of  allegiance: 
1901 

1902 

65 
65,  75 
61,71 

101 
11 
27 
39 
66 
82 
62,91 

1903 

1902 

1904. 

1903 

Reservation  of  land  at  — 
1896.                                   

1904 

Form  of  record,  classification  of  land: 
1899 

1897  

1898  

Form  of  report  of  classification  of  land: 
1899  

1899  

1900  

Form  of  sectional  diagram: 
1899  

1901  

1902  

1901  

1903  

72,  108 

Form  of  tract  book: 
1899  

1904 

68,104 
7 
34 
3 

3 

39 
35 
27 

64 

151 
141 

30 

74 

Suggestion  as   place  for  conference 
with  Choctaws  — 

1897 

Form  of  vouchers: 
1901 

Forests,  destruction  of: 
1894 

Fort  Townson,  reservation  for  town  site 
at: 
1903  

Forfeiture  of  citizenship: 
By  intermarried  whites  — 
1899  

Francis,  D.  R.: 
Letter  transmitting  annual  report  — 
1894 

1905  

Cherokee  Nation— 
1899 

Letter  transmitting  report  of  Commis 
sion  to  Committee  on  Indian  Affairs, 
for  1894— 
1894 

1901 

Form  of  government: 
Creek  Nation  — 
1899 

Francis: 
Reservation  for  town  site  at— 
1901  

Territorial,  recommended  — 

Fort  Gibson: 
Conference  with  Cherokees  at— 
18%  

1903  

1904 

Segregation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at  — 
1905  

1897 

Enrollment  of  Cherokees  at  — 
1900 

Franklin  v.  Franklin,  contest  case  of: 
1902  

1901 

Enrollment  of  Cherokee  freedmen— 
1902  

1903  

Fraud: 
In  Cherokee  citizenship  rolls— 
1897  

Establishment  of  blind  school  at— 
1900  

Headquarters  at  — 
1897... 

In  Cherokee  intruders  roll— 
1895... 

58 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Fraud—  Con  ti  nued  . 
In  Delaware  segregation— 
1904 

Page. 

38  172 

Freedmen  —  Continued. 
Cherokee  Nation  — 

Page. 

In  disbursement  of  tribal  funds  — 
1894.              .                              ... 

18 

General  in  enrollment  of  — 
1904 

106 

In  enrollment  of  Choctaws— 
1897  

18 

Right  to  share  in  distribution  of 
funds  — 

In  enrollment  of  court  citizens— 

1899  

70 

1901 

13 

1901 

92 

Preparation  of  tribal  rolls  — 

1903  

130 

1902                                  

11 

1904 

136 

Frequency  of  murder: 
1895  

75,76 

Unlawfully   placed   on    Wallace 
roll 

Freedmen: 

1894 

14 

Act  of  May  17,  1882,  concerning— 
1894 

38 

Chickasaw  Nation— 

Act  of  Choctaw  council,  May  21,  1883— 

1901  

63 

1894 

29 

Attorney  -  General     to    file    suit 

Adoption  of,  Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1894.                                               

38 

against  — 
1901 

63 

Alienation  of  allotments— 
1897  

12 

Enrollment  of  — 
1897 

93 

1898 

28 

1901 

63  66 

1899 

40 

1902 

!'">  95 

1900 

67 

1903 

111 

1901 

83 

1904 

18  107 

1902 

03 

Rights  to  be  determined  by  Court 

1903 

73 

of  Claims  — 

1904                                    

69 

1901 

63  66 

Allotment  of  land  in  Choctaw  and 

1902 

95 

Chickasaw  nations  — 

1908 

111 

1896  

101 

1904 

107 

1902  

89 

Opinion  of  Attorney-General  as  to 

1903  

104 

rights  of  — 

1904 

101 

1901 

206 

Appointment  of  committee  to  repre 
sent,  in  Choctaw  Nation  — 

Removal  of— 
1898  

6 

1894 

23 

Rights  to  be  determined  by  Court 

Appropriation  of  Choctaw  and  Chick 
asaw  nations  for  — 
1891  

38 

of  Claims- 
Treaty  of  1866— 
1894          

36 

Assistance  rendered  by— 
1898  

8 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
Excluded  from    participating  in 

Attorneys  for,  Chickasaw  Nation— 
1894 

35 

coal  and  asphalt  funds— 
1897 

11 

Cherokee  Nation* 

1898 

27 

Departmental  instructions  as  to 

1899 

38 

enrollment  of  — 

1900 

69 

1902  . 

122 

1901            

81 

1903  

134 

1902  

65 

1904  

140 

1903  

75 

Enrollment    of,     under    depart 

1904  

71 

mental  instructions— 
1901 

23 

Selections  of  allotments  for— 
1903                                       

52 

Enrollment  ordered  by  Court  of 
Claims— 
1899 

72 

Choctaw  Nation- 
Claims  of— 
1894                   

23 

1901 

94 

Claims  presented  to  the  Commis 

1903  

132 

sion  — 

1904  

138 

1894  

21 

Injunction  of  United  States  court, 
enrollment  of— 
1902 

119 

Claims  to  interest  in  leased  dis 
trict  payment— 
1894 

31 

1903 

136 

Enrollment  of  — 

1904 

24  142 

1902  

14 

1904 

17 

kee  Nation  — 
1901... 

204 

Claims  presented— 
1894... 

21 

THE   FIV 

Freedmen  —  Continued. 
Commission  directed  to  make  rolls 
of— 
1895 

E  CIVI 

Page. 

84 
23,35 
23 
23 
24 

70 
92 
122 
130 
136 

32,38 
6 
83 

93 

45 
38 

39 
46 
24 

83 
25 

23 
36 
63 
79 
59 
69 
65 

99 
67 
56 
72 
53 
63 
59 

32 

24 
13,  36,  64 
63 

LIZED   TRIBES. 

Freedmen—  Continued. 
Enrollment  of  —  Continued. 
Creek  Nation— 
1901  

59 

Page. 

79 
60 
70 
66 

84 

54  55 

Confidence  of,  in  Dawes  Commission  — 
1894                    

1902  

1903  

Conference  with,  in  Choctaw  Nation— 
1894  

1904  

Departmental    instructions    con 
cerning  — 
1897 

Convention  of,  Choctaw  Nation— 
1894 

Creek  Nation,  number  of— 
1900 

Form  of  patent,  Choctaw  and  Chick 
asaw  nations— 
1904  

Decree  of  Court  of  Claims,  suit,  v.  Cher 
okee  Nation  — 
1899 

Injustice  to  Choctaw  Nation— 
1894 

28 
29 
93 
31 
119 

117 
106 

103 
104 

14 
31 
41 

68 
84 
65 
75 
71 

12 
12 
12 
12 

29 
21 

15 
33 
43 
70 
86 

1901 

Lack  of  educational  facilities  in  Choc 
taw  Nation  — 
1894. 

190° 

1903 

1904 

Mandamus  proceedings  in  enrollment 
of  Cherokees— 
1897  

Demand  for  educational  facilities  — 
1894 

Difficulties  in  enrolling  Choctaw  and 
Chickasaw  — 
1898  

Message  of  President  Harrison   con 
cerning— 
1894  

Discrepancies  in  rolls,  Cherokee  Na 
tion  — 
1897 

Not  entitled   to  hold    town    lots   in 
Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1896 

Disputed  claims  of,   Chickasaw  Na 
tion— 
1897 

Not  to  participate  in  — 
Allotment,  Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1896. 

Duties  of  United  States  to— 
1894 

Distribution  of  funds  — 
1896.. 

Educational  facilities  for  — 
1894                    

Funds  derived  from  sale  of  town 
lots— 
1896  

Efforts  of  George  T.  Olmstead  in  be 
half  of— 
1894 

Mineral  royalties— 
1896  

Emancipation  of,  conditions  of— 
1894  

Town-site  funds  of  Choctaw  and 
Chickiuaw  nations— 
1897  

Emancipation  of,  in  Choctaw  Nation— 
1894 

1898 

Enrollment  of,  departmental  instruc 
tion  requested  by  Commission  — 
1897     .... 

1899 

1900 

1901  

Enrollment  by  intermarriage  — 
1904  

1902  

1903  

Enrollment  of— 
1898  

1904  

Number  of— 
In  Cherokee  Nation— 
1899 

1899  

1900 

1901 

In  Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1899 

1902 

1903 

In  Choctaw  Nation  — 
1899        

1904.   ..                    

By  Commission  — 
1897  

In  Creek  Nation— 
1899  

1899  

Occupancy  of  public  domain  in  Choc 
taw  Nation— 
1894 

1900 

1901 

1902 

On  Wallace  roll— 
1894.                                         .... 

1903 

1904  

Prohibited  from  sharing  in  — 
School  funds  — 
1897  

Cherokee  Nation— 
1902  

Creek  Nation— 

1898 

1898 

1899 

1899 

1900 

1900... 

1901... 

60 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Freedmen—  Continued. 
Prohibited  from  sharing  in  — 
School  funds  — 

Page. 

Freedmen—  Continued 
Treaty  of  1866  not  carried  out— 
1894 

Page. 

37 

1902  .   . 

66 

Work  incident  to  enrollment  of  — 

1903  

76 

1898  

Q 

1904  

72 

Freight  rates: 

Tribal  funds— 

1903  

94 

1897 

17 

1904. 

90 

1898 

35 

Fruit,  amount,  allowed  field  parties- 

1899            .               

44 

1901  

105 

1900                              

71 

Full  bloods: 

1901  

87 

Allotment  of  land  to  Cherokees  — 

1902 

68 

1904 

39 

1903  

78 

Destitution  of  — 

1904 

74 

1895.  . 

09 

Progress  of  enrollment  of  — 
1897 

93 

Opposition  to  allotment— 
1905  

47 

Progress   of    enrollment,   Chickasaw 

Protection  of,  by  Commission— 
1905  

37 

1905  

21 

Retrogression  of— 

1894  

18 

Nation— 

1005 

Where  located— 
1894  

15 

Provisions  of  Cherokee  treaty,  1866, 
affecting  — 
1894 

26 

Funds: 
Arising  from  sale  of  town  lots,  distri 
bution  of— 

1896     . 

103 

Provisions  of  treaty  of  1866,  affecting, 

1898  

22 

Creek  Nation  — 

1899  

35 

1900 

62 

Poverty  of,  in  Choctaw  and  Chicka 

1901 

78 

saw  nations— 

1902  

58 

1903 

68 

Removal  of  .fromChoctawand  Chicka 

1904 

64 

saw  nations  — 
1894 

26 

Derived  from  sale  of  cemeteries,  dis 

Report  of  C.  Delano,  concerning  Choc 

position  of— 
1896  

103 

taw  and  Chickasaw  — 
1894. 

44 

Disposition  of— 

Return  of  Cherokee,  to  Indian  Terri 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1900  

42 

tory— 
1904  '  

25 

Creek  Nation— 

Revision  of  Wallace  roll— 

1902  

87 

1894  

11 

Rights  to  be  determined  by  Court  of 

1904 

99 

Claims— 
1904  

125 

Seminole  Nation  — 

Right  to  share  in  distribution  of  Cher 
okee  funds  — 

Tribal— 
1897  ... 

97 

1899  

71 

1898 

25 

1901  

93 

1800 

1903  

131 

1000 

1904  

137 

1001 

71   80 

Right  to  share  in  tribal  funds  of  Choc 

1902  . 

51  61 

taw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 

1903        .     . 

61,71 

1894  

27 

1904 

57  67 

Sale  of  improvements,  Chickasaw  Na 
tion  — 
1894  

37 

Distribution  of— 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1896 

120 

Status  of,  in  Chickasaw  Nation  — 

1902 

100 

1897  

89 

1903 

114 

Stipulations  of  treaty  of  1866  concern- 

1904  '. 

112 

ing- 
1899  

14 

Creek  Nation— 
1894 

9 

To  receive  allotments  in  Creek  Na 

1900 

50 

tion  — 

1901 

51 

1899 

60 

1902 

78 

Treatment  and  condition  of  — 

1903  

88 

1894... 

19,24 

1904... 

84 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


61 


Funds—  Continued. 
Distribution  of  — 

Page. 

Game,  abundance  of: 
1894.  

Page. 
15 

Seminolc  — 
1894 

13 

Gans,  appointment  at,  for  enrollment  of 
Cherokees' 

1897 

78 

1902  

30 

1899 

88 

Gardner,  Jeff: 

1901                           

55 

Invitation  to  the  Commission  to  ajt- 

1902                  

81 

tend  Choctaw  council  — 

1903 

91 

1895 

62 

1904 

87 

Letter  to  Commission    May  27  1895  — 

Tribal— 

1895 

62 

1896 

114 

Letter  of  Commission  to  — 

1897 

17,51 

July  1,  1896— 

1898 

8,  23,  35 

1896  

93 

1899                     

36,44 

July  10,  1896— 

1900  

63,71 

1896  

95 

1901  

79,87 

Letter  to  Commission,  A  \igust5,  f8%  — 

1902 

59  67 

1896 

94 

1903 

69  77 

Letter  of  Commission  to    August  8 

1904 

65  73 

1896— 

Tribal  Cherokee  Nation  — 

1896.. 

96 

1894 

11 

Letter  of  Commission  to  — 

1902.                 ..  . 

108 

1895  

62 

1903  

124 

Garfield,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1904  

120 

1902  

30 

For  school  purposes  — 
Cherokee  Nation 

Garrett  v.  Walcott,  contest  case  of: 
1903 

143  152 

1900  

40 

Garrett  v.  Sango,  contest  case  of: 

In  Chickasaw  Nation  — 

1903  

142 

1894 

10 

Garvin  reservation  for  town  site  at' 

Creek  Nation  — 

1903 

34 

1900 

52 

Gas1 

1901 

52 

Disposition  of  revenue  from  — 

1902 

79 

1896 

103 

1903 

89 

Disposition  of   royalties    Chickasaw 

1904 

85 

Nation  — 

For  schools  to  be  derived  from  royal 

1896 

120 

ties,  Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1896  .   .. 

120 

Effect  of  discovery  on  allotment  — 
1905                                       .  . 

40 

Fraud  in  disbursement  of  — 
1894  

18 

Gas  land: 
Disposition  of  — 

Investment  of  — 

1897.                   

23 

1896  

105 

Reservation  of  — 

In  possession  of  United  States  Gov 

1896  

101 

ernment,  statement  of— 
1901 

217 

Gas  leases: 
To  be  approved  by  Secretarv  of  the 

Of  Cherokee  Nation,  right  of  freedmen 
to  share  in  — 

Interior— 
1897 

77 

1899 

70 

1901 

54 

1901.. 

92 

1902 

81 

1903... 

130 

1903                    

91 

1904  

136 

1904                 

87 

Manner  of  distribution  — 
1896  

105 

To  be   made   with   Seminole    tribal 
government  — 

Right  of  Delaware  Indians  to  share  iii 

1897  

77 

Cherokee  — 

1901 

54 

1899 

70 

1902 

81 

1901  .  .  . 

92 

1903 

91 

1903  .  . 

130 

1904 

87 

1904  .... 

135 

Gas  royalty  disposition  of  Seminole  Na 

Right  of  Shawnee  Indians  to  share  in 
Cherokee  — 

tion: 
1897  

77 

1899  

71 

1901  

54 

1901 

92 

1902 

81 

1903 

130 

1903 

91 

1904 

135 

1904                                           

87 

Gaither  v.  Alexander,  allotment  contest: 
1902... 

128 

Gasoline,  purchase  of,  for  field  parties: 
1901... 

105 

THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Geological  survey  of  Indian  Territory: 
1899                                  

Page. 

L'O 

Government  —  Continued. 

Dissolution  of  — 

Page. 

Genealogy  of  Mississippi  Choctaws,  table 
of: 

Seminole  tribal— 
1894  

13 

1902 

162 

1903 

126 

General  conference  of  Five  Tribes: 

1904 

31  l'>2 

1896,  

133 

Duty  of  United  States  to  establish,  in 

Gibson  Station: 

Indian  Territory— 
1895 

84 

1899 

61 

Establishment  of  Territorial  form 

Reservation  for  town  site  at  — 

1897 

99 

1900 

46 

]S:'i       

68 

1901 

39 

190.!  

57 

1903 

34 

1901 

73 

Gibson  N   A  • 

1902  . 

53 

Report  in  citizenship  case  — 

1903... 

63 

Cale%>  \V  Hnbbard  et  al  — 

1904  

59 

1899 

147 

Failure  of  tribal  — 

1901 

171 

1894  

17  20 

William  J.  Watts  et  al.— 
1899 

133 

Form  of,  in— 
Cherokee  Nation 

1901 

152 

1899 

55 

Gilbert,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1903 

34 

Creek  Nation  — 
1894. 

9 

Goingsnake  Court  House    enrollment  of 

1899  .   . 

64 

Cherokees  at: 
1902 

30 

Territorial  form- 
In  Chickasaw  Nation  — 

Goodland  convention  of  Choc*  taw  colored 

1894  

10 

citizens'  association  at: 
1894 

23 

Recommended  — 
1895 

78 

Gossett  v.  Johnson: 

Not  desired  by  Seminoles  — 
1897. 

72 

case  of  — 
1902  

48 

Integrity  of  tribal,  guaranteed  — 
1897  

69 

Contest  case  of  — 
1902  

145 

Graft  in  allotment  of  land: 
1905 

Government: 
Changes  provided   by  act  of  June  7, 

Grafters,  allotment  contests  instituted  by: 
1905 

45 

1897— 
1897 

91 

Gray,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1901  

39 

1891 

1903  

35 

1895  . 

78 

Grazing  tax,  Cherokee  Nation: 

1897  

88 

1900  

42 

1899.                

162 

1901  

181 

1899 

'}fi 

Dissolution  of  tribal— 
1896  

97,  114 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1902 

109 

1899  

27 

1903 

125 

1900  

42 

1904 

121 

1902          

108 

1903  

124 

Creek  Nation— 

1904  

120 

Dissolution  of  — 

1904 

JOO 

Cherokee  tribal— 
1896 

132 

Form  of  — 

1900  

77 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  tribal— 
1897 

16 

Termination  of  — 

1898 

01 

1898  

'25 

1899 

1899  

37 

1900 

71 

1900  

64 

1901 

87 

1901  

SO,  97 

1902  

f>l 

-iqiy) 

1903  

71 

1904 

70 

1904  

67 

In  Creek  tribal— 
1894... 

9 

Greenleaf,  Quabner  ?.>.,  contest  case  of: 
1903... 

144 

THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


63 


Griffith  v.  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,     Page. 
South,  contest  case  of: 

1903 155 

Griffith,  T.  D.,   report  concerning  Choc- 
taw  and  Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1894 39 

Grissom  v.  Asbury: 
Contest  case  of— 

1902 131, 138 

Decision  of   Commission    in  contest 
case  of— 

1901 42 

Grissom  v.  Checote,  contest  case  of: 

1902 1 34 , 138 

Grissom  v.  Gibson: 
Contest  case  of— 

1902 133, 136 

Decision  of   Commission    in   contest 
case  of — 

1901 42 

Grove,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1900 25 

Guardians: 

Authority  of,  in  contest  cases — 

1903 158 

Jurisdiction  of  courts  over — 

1904 44 

For  Creek  minors — 

1900 51 

1901 52 

1902 78 

1903 88 

1904 84 

Guy,  William  M.: 

Letter  to  Commission— 

1896 121 

Memorial  to  Congress — 

1897 24 

Hailey,  Ferryman  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1903 142 

Haileyville,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903 34 

Hall,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1901 39 

1903 34 

Hall,  George  W.,  memorial  of  Chickasaw 
freedmen: 

1894 53 

Halsell,  Edward  L.,  excessive  holdings  of: 

1904 172 

Hanna,  alienation  of  land  for  town  site 
purposes  at: 

1905 63 

Harlcy  Institute,  reservation  for: 

1897 11,52 

1898 27 

1899 39, 119 

1900 66 

1901 82 

1902 62, 92 

1903 72, 108 

1904 68, 101 

Harrell  Institute,  reservation  for: 

1 897 52 

Harrington,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903 34 

Harris,  C.  J.: 

Appointment  with  Commission— 

1895...  59 


Harris,  C.  J.— Continued.  Page. 

Letter   refusing    to    negotiate    with 
Commission — 

1895 63 

Letter  to  Commission — 
May  6,  1895— 

1895 59 

June  11, 1895— 

1895 64 

November  1,  1895— 

1895 68 

Harris,  R.  M.: 

Letter  to  Commission — 

1896 117 

Memorial  to  Congress— 

1897 24 

Letter  to  Commission — 
October  23,  1896— 

1896 114 

October  26,  1896— 

1896 114 

October  31,  1896— 

1896 115 

January  15,  1897— 

1896 117 

February  11,  1897— 

1897 21 

July  22,  1897— 

1897 25 

July  26,  1897— 

1897 25 

June  28,  1897— 

1897 24 

November  8, 1897— 

1897 25 

December  20,  1897— 

1897 26 

December  22,  1897— 

1897 26 

Harrison,  Benjamin,    message    concern 
ing  Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1894 31 

Harrison  v.  Tucker,  decision  of  Commis 
sion  in  contest  case  of: 

1901 41 

Hartshorn,   citizens  addressed   by  Com 
mission  at — 

1895 65 

Haskell,  alienation  of  land  for  town  site 
purposes  at: 

1 905 63 

Hastings,  W.  W.: 

Letter  to  Secretary  of  Interior  request 
ing  removal  of  intruder — 

1897 30 

Letter  to  Commission  August  12, 1897— 

1897 36 

Hastingsand  Pierce,  letter  to  Commission: 
October  2,  1897— 

1897 37 

November  20,  1897— 

1897 42 

November  23,  1897— 

1897 42 

December  4,  1897— 

1897 43 

December  8,  1897— 

1897 43 


64 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Hattieaburg,  appointment  at,  for  identifi 
cation  of  Mississippi  Choc  taws: 

1900 

1901 

Hayden,  Henry  C.,  enrollment  case  of: 

1903 

Hays,  appointment  at,  for  identification 
of  Mississippi  Choctaws: 

1902 

Headquarters  of  Commission: 
At  Fort  Gibson— 

1897 

At  Muscogee— 

1894 

1895 

At  Vinita— 

1895 

Vinita,  Cherokee  Nation — 

1896 

Removal  to  Fort  Smith — 

1895 

Removal  from  Fort  Smith  to    Mus 
cogee— 

1897 

Heirs,  form  of  deeds  to  Creek  Nation: 

1902 

1903 

Heirs  at  law: 

1902 

Helen,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1901 

1903 

Henry  Kendall  College: 
Reservation  for — 

1897 

Disposition  of  land— 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Hemphill,  John  F.,  attorney's  fees: 

1900 

Hemphill,  John  J.,  claims: 

1899 

Hemphill,  J.  J.,  letter  relative  to  segrega 
tion  of  Delaware  lands: 

1903 

Henryetta: 

Reservation  for  town  site  at — 

1901 

190.3 

Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at— 

1904 

1905 

Hero,  Miss.,  appointment  at,  for  identifi 
cation  of  Mississippi  Choctaws: 

1902 

History  of  Creeks: 

1897 

Hitchcock,  E.  A.: 

Instructions  concerning   enrollment 
of  Cherokee  frecdmen— 

1902 

1903 

1904... 


Page,    j   Hitchcock,  E.  A.— Continued.  Page. 

Letter  transmitting  proposed  Choctaw 
17  and  Chickasaw  agreement  to  Con- 

19  gress— 

1901...  60 


It 

Letter  to,  October  29,  1903,  Delaware 
segregation  — 
1904 

36 

23 

Letter  of  instructions,  enrollment  of 
Cherokee  freedmcn  — 
1901  

23 

34 

Order  closing  citizenship  rolls— 
1905  

28 

7 
59 

84 

Hodge,  D.  M.: 
Letter  to  Commission  — 
September  27,  1897— 
1897  

56 

131 

December  16,  1896— 
1896 

152  161 

88 

December  18,  1896— 
1896.. 

163 

7 

Holdenville: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at— 
]904  

29 

163 

1905  

63 

169 

Enrollment  of  children  at— 
1905  

30 

159 

Enrollment  of  Creeks  at— 
1897  

57 

39 

1902 

36 

35 

Establishment  of  town  site  at— 
1899 

61 

52 

Reservation  for  town  site  at  — 
1900 

46 

49 

76 

Homesteads: 
Alienation  of  — 
1897  

12 

86 

1898  

28 

82 

1899  

1900  

07 

44 

1901  

83 

1902  

63 

58 

1903  

73 

1904  

69 

47 

Designation  of  Creek  Nation  — 
1902  

40 

Designation  of  Seminole  Nation  — 
1904  

30 

04 

1905  

53 

Form    of   certificates,    Choctaw    Na 
tion— 
1903 

190 

63 

Form  of  Cherokee  certificates  — 
1903 

176 

23 

Form  of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  pat 
ents  — 
1904. 

51  52 

69 

Form  of  Creek  patents  — 
1902  

162 

1903  

168 

Patents  to  Creek  Nation  — 
1902. 

87 

134 

1903  

103 

140 

1904... 

99 

THE   FIVE 

Homesteads—  Continued. 
Reservation  of— 
1899                      

CIVI 
Page. 

83 
36,46 
46,83 
73 
83 
79 

11 
102 
118 
114 

12 
28 
40 
67 
83 
63,89 
73,  105 
69,  101 

60 
46 
46 
73,87 
83,  103 
79,99 

13 

78 
88 
55 
81 
91 
87 

51 
46 
73 
83 
79 

12 
28 
40 
67 
83 
63 
73 
69 

12 
28 
40 
67 
83 
63 
69 

16 
33 

LIZED   TRIBES.                                          65 

Homicide—  Continued.                                     Page. 
Jurisdiction  of   United    States  court 
over— 
1899.                                                             43  64 

1900 

1901 

1900  70 

190'> 

1901  86 

1903                              

1902  66 

11904 

1903                                                                    76 

In  Cherokee  Nation  — 
1894 

1904                                           .                         72 

In  Seminole  Nation  — 
1897  78 

1902                                         

1903                                         

1899  88 

1904 

1901                                                                     55 

In  Choctaw  and  Chickasavv  na 
tions  — 

1897 

1902                                                                     81 

1903              ....                                        9> 

1904  ..            88 

1898 

Trial  for— 
1896                                                                   105 

1899 

1900                                       

To  be  tried  in  United  States  court— 
1896                                                                   104 

1901 

1902            

Home,  E.  J.,  decision  of  United  States 
court  in  citizenship  case: 
1899  98 

1903        

1904  

In  Creek  Nation— 
1899 

1901  117 

Howard,  Mingo  v.,  allotment  contest: 
1903                                                                       155 

1900 

1901 

Hubbard,  Caleb  W.,  decision  of  United 
States  court  in  citizenship  case  of: 
1899                 .                                                      147 

1902 

1903                                           .     . 

1904 

1901            ...                                               166 

In  Seminole  Nation  — 
1894  

Hugo: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at— 
100^                                                                            cq 

1897  

1899  

1901  

Enrollment  of  children  at  — 

1005                                                                                1Q 

1902  

1903 

Reservation  for  town-site  at  — 
1  90'-?                                                                            '-44 

1904  

Sale  of,  Creek  Nation  — 
1900  

Hunter,  reservation  of  town  site  at: 
1903                                                                        34 

1901  

Hutchings,  William  T.: 
Attorneys  fees  — 
1900  .                                  44 

1902  

1903  

1904  

Claim  of— 
1899  58 

Selection  of,  for  minors— 

1898 

Letter  relative  to  segregation  of  Dela 
ware  lands— 
1903  47 

1899 

1901     . 

Idabel,  enrollment  of  children  at: 
1905  19 

1902 

1903  

Identification  of  Mississippi  Choctaws: 
1898                                                                        7  24 

1904  

Separate  patents  to  be  issued  for— 
1897  

1899  10,17,36 

1900                                                                 16  63  73 

1898 

1901  18,  62,  67,  79,  89 
1902                                                           22  60  69  96 

1899  

1900  

1903                                                         16  70  79  112 

1901  

1904                                                               66  75  108 

1902  

1905                                                                           22 

1904  

Appointment  in  Mississippi  for— 
1899                                                                    78 

Homicide: 
Jurisdiction  of    United    States  court 
over  — 
1897  

1902                                                                    23 

Compliance  with  article  14  essential 
to— 
1902...                                                          28 

1898... 

15013—06 5 


66 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Identification  of  Mississippi  Choctaws—      Page. 
Continued. 
Difficulties  of— 

1899 78 

Progress  of— 

1904 18 

Regulations  governing  depositions— 

1902 117 

Report  of  Commission- 
January  28,  1898— 

1899 73 

March  10,  1899— 

1899 77 

Table  of  genealogy— 

1902 162 

Ignorance  of  Chickasaw  f  reedmen — 

1894 39 

Ignorance  of  Choctaw  freedmen— 

1894 32 

Illinois,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at— 

1900 25 

Illustration: 

Appraising  party  mounted  for  work— 

1901 32 

Arkansas  River  bottoms— 

1901 35 

Bird's-eye  view  of  Tahlequah— 

1902 17 

Bottom  land  on  Grand  River— 

1901 34 

Hon.  John  F.  Brown,  governor  Semi- 
nole  Nation— 

1902 41 

T.  M.  Buffington,  principal  Chief  of  the 
Cherokee  Nation — 

1902 28 

Business  block  in  Vinita— 

1902 65 

Business  street  in  Okmulgee— 

1902 ; 45 

Camp  of  land  appraising  party— 

1901 33 

Camp  of  Cherokee  enrollment  party — 

1901 22 

Cattle  range  in  Creek  Nation — 

1899 84 

Cherokee  commissioners — 

1899 16 

Cherokee  Male  Seminary— 

1902 21 

Creek  freedmen  home— 

1899 60 

Creek  Indian  home — 

1899 46 

Enrollment-card  box — 

1899 30 

Enrollment  of  Chickasa,ws— 

1899 108 

Enrollment  of  citizens  by  Dawes  Com 
mission  in  Ohoctaw  Nation — 

1899 76 

Enrollment  of  Choctaws— 

1899 110 

Isparhecher,  chief  of  the  Creeks— 

1899 Frontispiece. 

Landscape  near  Sapulpa — 

1901...  37 


Illustration — Continued.  Page. 

Office  tent  of  Commission  for  enroll 
ment  of  citizens — 

1901 10 

Portrait  of  Hon.  Douglass  H.  John 
ston,  governor  of  Chickasaw  Na 
tion— 

1902 10 

Portrait  of  Hon.  Pleasant  Porter,  prin 
cipal  chief  of  the  Creek  Nation— 

1902 36 

Preparing  mess,  timber  estimating 
party— 

1901 36 

Scene  in  South  McAlester— 

1902 7 

Scene  on  Second  street,  Muscogee, 
Ind.  T.— 

1902 31 

Section  of  file  cases  used  by  Commis 
sion — 

1901 27 

Street  in  Durant— 

1902 51 

Type  of  Creek  freedmen— 

1902 Frontispiece. 

Type  of  Creek  Indian— 

1901 9 

Wagon  of  applicants  for  enrollment 
at  Commission's  camp — 

1901.... 12 

Inadequacy  of  agreement  with  Choctaws 
and  Chickasaws: 

1901 60 

Incumbrance: 

Of  land  in  Cherokee  Nation— 

1900 36 

1902 102 

1903 118 

1904 114 

Of  real  estate — 

1897 55 

Of  land,  Seminole  Nation— 

1897 77 

1901. 54 

1902 81 

1903 91 

1904 87 

Of  town  lots— 

1899 53,63 

Improvements: 

Appraisement  of,  Creek  Nation — 

1897 51 

1898 37 

1899 59 

1902 41 

1903 38 

Guaranteed  Creek  citizens— 

1897 51 

1898 37 

1899 59 

In  contest  cases,  possession  of — 

1903 158 

In  one  tribe  owned  by  members  of 
another— 

1898 25 

1899. . .  37 


THE   FIVE 

Improvements  —  Continued. 
In  one  tribe  owned  by  members  of 
another  — 
1900                                       

CIVI 

Page. 

64 
80 
60 
70 
66 

21 
35 
62,74 
78,90 
58,70 
68,80 
64,76 

64,68 

86,97 
02,113 
98,  109 

9 

101 
12,51 
28 
39 
66 
82 
63 
73 
69 

59 
62 

12,51 

52 

78 
88 
84 

12,51 
52 

78 
88 
84 

16 
31 
58 
74 
64 
64 
60 

13 
30 
41 

LIZED   TRIBES. 

Improvements—  Continued. 
On  town  lots  — 
Appraisement  of  — 
1900  

67 

Page. 

68 
84 
64 
74 
70 

52 

47 
48 
75 
85,102 
81 

60 

101 
12 
18,28 
\,  39,  166 
60,66 
76,82 
56,63 
66,73 
62,69 

59 

77 
87 
54 
80 
90 
86 

36 
159 

36 

46 
46 
73 
83 

79 

37 

10,36 
7,41 

17 
31 
58 
74 
54 
64 
60 

29 
31 

g 

1901                           

1901  

1902 

1902 

1903 

1903 

1904 

1904     . 

In  town  sites- 
Appraisement  of— 
1898                                

Concessions  to  owners— 
1899       

Purchase  of— 
1900  

1899                                       ..  .. 

1900     

1901  

1901  

1902  

1902  

1903  

1903 

1904 

1904 

Removal  of— 
1899 

Compensation  for— 
1901 

Right  to  select,  in  allotment  guaran 
teed— 
Choctaws  and  Chickasaws— 
1896  

Payment  for  — 
1902          

1903  .  1 

1904  

1897  

Location  of  — 
1904  

1898  

1899  31 

Not  to  be  considered  in  appraisement 
of— 
Land— 
1896  

1900  

1901  

1902 

1903  

1897 

1904 

1898 

Creeks— 
1899 

1899 

1900 

Seminoles— 
1897 

1901 

1902 

1899 

1903 

1901 

1904 

1902 

Creek  land— 
1899. 

1903 

1904           .     . 

Town  lots  — 
1899. 

Sale  of— 
1900                   

Of  Creek  Indians    in  Seminole  Na 
tion— 
1900  

1902 

In  Cherokee  Nation— 
1900  

1901  

In  Creek  Nation  — 
1900         

1902 

1903 

1901          

1904 

1902  

Of  Seminole  Indians,  Creek  Nation— 
1900 

1903  

1904      

1901 

By  Chickasaw  freedmen— 
1894 

1902. 

1£03  

By  Delaware  Indians— 
1904 

1904  

Of  intruders,  payment  for— 
1898  

1905 

By  rejected  claimants— 
1898 

1899  

1900  

1899                  

1901  

1900          

1902 

1901 

1903 

1902 

1904 

1903 

On  town  lots- 
Appraisement  of  — 
1897  

1904 

Improvement  survey: 
1900                                            

1898  

1903                                  

1899... 

1904... 

THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Improvement  survey — Continued.  Page. 

Progress  of— 

1902 43 

Value  of,  in  allotment — 

1901 32 

Indian  agent: 

Aid  desired  in  enrollment  of  citizens— 

1897 65 

Authority  of— 

1897 65 

Jurisdiction  over  sale  of  land— 

1904 124 

Report    concerning    Choctaw    and 
Chickasaw  freedmen— 

1894 39 

To  remove  intruders,  Cherokee  Na 
tion— 

1902 102 

1903 118 

1904 114 

Indianola,  alienation  of  land  for  town- 
site  purposes  at: 

1904 29 

1905 63 

Inadequacy  of  Atoka  agreement: 

1901 10 

1902 9 

Inadequacy  of  Curtis  Act: 

1901 10 

Inaccuracy  of  Kern-Clifton  roll  of  Cher 
okee  freedmen: 

1902 123 

1903 135 

1904 141 

Inaccuracy  of  tribal  rolls: 

1902 11 

Incompetents: 

Acceptance  of  patents  for— 

1901 64,69 

1902 100,108 

1903 116,124 

1904 112,120 

Selection  of  allotments  for— 

1896 101 

1897 12,51 

1898 28,37 

1899 39,50,60  82 

1900 36,46,66 

1901 46, 65, 70, 82 

1902 63,73,87,100,108 

1903 73,83,103,116,124 

Incorporation  of  towns: 

1896 103 

1898 19,20 

1899 34,63 

1900 49,61,74 

1901 50,77,90 

1902 67,71,77,98 

1903 67,81,87,114 

1904 63,77,83,110 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1896 132 

1899 58 

1900 -". 41 

Chickasaw  Nation— 

1896 114 

Creek  Nation— 

18%...  ....         146 


Incumbrance: 

Of  allotments— 
1902. . . 


Page. 


1904 

Of  allotments,  Creek  Nation— 

1899 

Of  homesteads,  Creek  Nation— 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  land— 

1897 

1898... 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  lands  allotted  to  Mississippi  Choc- 
taws — 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Indian  inspector,  to  be  located  in  Indian 
Territory: 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 '. 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Indian  names,  frequent  changes  in: 

1905 9 

Indian  Territory,  area  of: 

1899 160 

1901 179 

Indemnity  desired  by  Choctaws: 

1896 99 

Industrial  development  of  the  Territory: 

1901 7 

Initiation  of  contests: 

1899 84 

1901 100 

1902 112,159 

1903 163 

1904 201 

Injunction: 

United   States   court,  enrollment  of 
Cherokee  freedmen— 

1902 119 

1903 27,136 

1904 24,142 

Supreme  Court,  allotment  of  Delaware 
lands— 

1904 34 

Injustice  to  Choctaw  freedmen: 

1894 28 

Inola,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1901 34 

1903...  39 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


69 


Innocent  purchasers  of  land  involved  in 
contest  proceedings: 
1903                                                     

Page. 

158 

41 

55 
103 
119 
115 

15 

69 

25 
37 
64 
80 
60 
70 
66 

35 
44 
71 

87 
67 
77 
73 

7 
7,26 
7,26 

11 

26 
17,18 

15 

25 
37 
64 
80 
60 
70 
66 

16 

100 
119 

Intermarried  whites—  Continued. 
Forfeiture  of  citizenship— 
1899  

Page. 

15 

12 

31 
62 

63 
153 

134,  153 
153 
158 
65 
133 

65 

7 

69 
72,73 

88,89 
69,84 
100,  125 
75,  121 

97 
66 
65 
71 
51 
61 
57 

76 

108 
124 
120 

100 
116 
112 

14 

42 
41 
68 
84 
65 
75 
71 

Insane  asylum,  Cherokee  Nation: 
Appropriation  for— 
1900 

1905                           

International  conference  at  Tahlequah: 
1897  

Reservation  for  — 
1899 

International  convention,  suggested  by  Is- 
parhecher: 
1897 

1902 

1903 

International  council: 
At  Eufaula— 
1895 

1904                                           

Instructions  of  Department,  closing  citi 
zenship  rolls: 
1905                                           

1896 

At  McAlester— 
1896                                      

Integrity  of  tribal  government  guaran 
teed: 
1897 

At  Okmulgee  — 
1896          

Intercourse  laws: 
1898 

At  South  McAlester,  resolution  of— 
1896  

1899 

Choctaw  Nation  not  represented  at— 
1895  

1900                                                       

1901                                                 

Conference  with  Commission— 
18%  

1902                                  

1903                              

Resolution  of,  refusing  to  negotiate 
with  Commission— 
1895 

1904                                    

Interest,  payment  of  arrears: 
1898          

To  consider  negotiations  with  Com 
mission— 
1894 

1899            

1900 

1901 

Interpreters: 
Appropriation  for— 
1899 

1902 

1903 

1904 

1900 

Intermarried  Cherokees: 
Act  of  March  3,  1905— 
1905 

1901 

1902 

1903  79, 

Appeal  to  Supreme  Court  — 
1905               .              

1904 

Provision  for— 
1897                          

Decision  of  Court  of  Claims— 
1905 

1899  

Intermarried  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws, 
difficulties  in  enrollment  of: 
1905  

1900                           

1901.              .            

1902  

Intermarried  freedmen,  application  for 
enrollment  of: 
1905 

1904  

Intimidation  of   witnesses   in    criminal 
cases: 
1895 

Intermarried  whites: 
As  excessive  landholders— 

1894 

Institution  of  contests,  Cherokee  Nation: 
1902  

Enrollment  in  Choctaw  and  Chicka- 
saw  nations- 
is0^ 

1903                           

1904                           

Intoxicants: 
Prohibited  at  Sulphur  Springs  Reser 
vation  — 
1902 

Enrollment  of— 

1898 

1899     

1903  

1900  

1901  

Prohibited  in— 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1902  

1903  

1904  

Children  of— 
1905  

1899 

1900 

Decision  of  court  in  citizenship  case 
of  W.  R.  Senter— 
1899  

1901  .                                    

1902                                      

1903                                       .  ... 

1901... 

1904... 

70 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Intoxicants  —  Continued 
Prohibited  in  — 
Creek  Nation— 
1897 

Page. 
55 

Intruders—  Continued. 
Removal  of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
nations  — 

1898. 

Page. 

29 
40 

67 
83 
63,91 
73,106 
69,  103 

8 
51,60 
60 
46 
47 
73,88 
83,104 
79,100 

13 

30 
74 

158 
16 

59 
9 

6 
141 
4 

141 
142 

48 
57 

61 
62 

141 

68 

65,69 
102 

1899 

65 

1899               

1900 

53 

1900  

1901                         

53 

1901  

1902                       

80 

1902  

1903 

90 

1903 

1904 

86 

1904 

Seminole  Nation— 
1897 

78 

Removal  of,  Creek  Nation  — 
1894  

1899 

88 

1897  

1901                             .     .  . 

55 

1899  

1902                 

82 

1900  

1903 

92 

1901 

1904 

88 

1902 

Necessity  for  prohibition  of— 
1894 

18 

1903 

1904 

Sale  of,  prohibited— 
1896 

103,  159 

Removal  of,  Seminole  Nation  — 
1894.              .     .          . 

1898 

21 

Removal    of,    requested    by    Chero- 
kees— 
1897  

1899 

34 

1900                             

61 

1901                         

77 

Intruders'  roll,  corruption  of: 
1895  

1902            

57 

1903                

67 

Irregular  holdings,  contest  cases: 
1903 

1904 

63 

Intruders: 
Appropriation  for  removal  of— 
1902 

84 

Isolation  desired  by  Indians: 
1894  

Isparhecher: 
Annual  message  of— 
1897 

1903 

100 

1904 

9fi 

Cherokee  agreement  concerning— 
1904                                             12 

Delay  in  calling  election  for  ratifica 
tion  of  Creek  agreement  — 
1899 

Expense  of  removing— 
1896 

118 

Failure  to  call  election  for  ratification 
of  agreement  — 
1898  

Occupancy  of  public  domain  — 
1899 

17 

Payment  for  improvements  — 
1898.            

16 

Illness  of  — 
1896  ^  

1899  

31 

Rejection  of  proposed  agreement— 
1898 

1900 

58 

1901 

74 

Letter  of  Commission  to— 
July  10,  1896— 
1896 

1902  

54 

1903 

64 

1904 

60 

August  7,  1896— 
1896                                  

Removal  of— 
1896 

67,  102,  118 

June  28,  1897— 
1897                      

1898 

16,  18 

1899                                  

31,33,51,166 
36,58,60 

September  30,  1897— 
1897  

1900  

1901  

.  65,69,74,76 

Letter  to  Creek  council  transmitting 
proposed     agreement    October     8, 
1897 

1902  

54,56 

1903 

64  66 

1904 

60  62,124 

1897 

Removal  of,  Cherokee  Nation— 
1894 

12 

Letter  to  national  council  October  5, 
1897— 
1897        

1895  

.   ..            70 

1902  

102 

Letter  to  Commission  — 
July  13,  1896— 
1896 

1903  

118 

1904 

114 

Removal  of,  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
nations— 
1894                                                              10 

December  2,  1897— 
1897                 

Issuance  of  allotment  certificates: 
1901         

1896 

120 

1897... 

12 

1902... 

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71 


Issuance  of  allottment  certificates — Con.  Page. 

1903 118 

1904 114 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1902 91 

1903 107 

1904 101 

To  Seminole  Nation — 

1897 77 

1899 87 

1901 54 

1902 80 

1903 90 

1904 86 

Issuance  of  bonds  by  municipalities: 

1899 58,63 

Issuance  of  patents: 

1896 100, 118 

1897 22 

1900 48 

1901 49 

1902 76 

1903 86 

1904 82 

Cherokee  Nat.' on — 

1899 50 

1900 39 

1902 107 

1903 38,123 

1904 41, 119 

Choctaws  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1897 12 

1898 29 

1899 40 

1900 67 

1901 83 

1902 63.100 

1903 73, 116 

1904 47, 69, 112 

Creek  Nation — 

1897 52 

1898 38 

1899 60 

1900 48 

1901 49 

1902 76 

1903 38,86 

1904 82 

Seminole  Nation— 

1897 77 

1 899 88 

1901 55 

1902 81 

1903 91,126 

1904 30,87,121 

To  cemeteries — 

1897 14 

1898 31 

1899 41 

1900 68 

1901 84 

1902 65 

To  town  lots — 

1896 119 

1898 22 

1899 35,52,62 

1900...  62 


Issuance  of  patents— Continued.  Page. 

To  town  lots— 

1901 64,69,78 

1902 58,97 

1903 68,113 

1904 64,109 

To  deceased  Mississippi  Choctaws— 

1901 63 

Investment  of  titfSH  funds: 

1896 105 

1897 17 

1898 35 

1899 44 

1900 71 

1901 87 

1902 68 

1903 78 

1904 74 

Invitation  to  Commission: 

To  attend  Creek  national  council— 

1897 56 

To  visit  Tahlequah— 

1896 127 

Invoices  for  field  supplies: 

1901 106 

Jacoway,  H.  M.,  letter  to  Green  McCur- 
tain,  July  22,  1897: 

1897 18 

Jail  at  Tahlequah,  disposition  of: 

1899 56 

1900 41 

Jails,  reservation  for: 

1899 54 

1900 39 

1902 107 

1903 123 

1904 119 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1902 103 

1903 119 

1904 115 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1897 11 

1898. . .  27 


1900. 
1901. 
1902. 


1904 

Creek  Nation— 

1900 

1901 

1902 ... 

1903 

1904 

Jail  reservations,  disposition  of: 
1897... 


1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Jamison,  Tucker  v.  contest  case  of: 
1902... 


65 
81 
61 
71 
68 

48 
49 
75 
85 
81 

14 
31 

42 
69 
85 
65 
75 
71 

12C 


72 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Job  v.  Rentie,  contest  case  of:  Page. 

1903 145 

Johnson,  D.  H.,  annual  message  of:    • 

1901 14,209 

Johnson,   Gossett  v.,  decision  of  Depart 
ment  in  contest  case  of: 

1902 48 

Johnson,  Jennie.et  al.,  opinion  of  Supreme 
Court  in  citizenship  case  of: 

1899 160, 171 

1901 179, 190 

Johnson,  W.  B.,  letters  to  Commission, 
November  25, 189G: 

1896 88,116 

Jones  Academy,  reservation  for: 

1896 101 

1897 11 

1898 27 

1899 39 

1900 66 

1901 82 

1902 62, 92 

1903 72,108 

1904 68,104 

Joseph,  W.  L.,  appointed  Seminole  town- 
site  commissioner: 

1899 89 

1901 58 

1902 110 

1903 128 

1904 128 

Judgment  of  United  States  court  final  in 
citizenship  cases: 

1895 83 

Jurisdiction: 

In  contest  cases— 

1902 159 

Of  citizenship  court,  enrollment  of 
citizens — 

1905 13 

Of   Commission   in  citizenship  mat 
ters— 

1897 84,98,100 

1899 .".       67,68 

1900 56, 57 

1901 72, 73 

1902 . . . . , 52, 53 

1903 62, 63 

1904 58, 59 

1905 13 

Of  Commission  in  contest  cases— 

1902 91, 100, 102 

1903 107,118 

1904 103,114 

Of  courts — 

1899 63 

Of  courts,  Cherokee  Nation— 

1899 57 

Of  Court  of  Claims,  to  determine  rights 
of  Cherokee  freed  men— 

1904 125 

Court  of  Claims,  rights  of  Delaware 
Indians — 

1904 125 

Of  district  courts— 

1904 126 

Of  judges  under  act  of  April  28, 1904— 

1904...  126 


Jurisdiction — Continued. 
Of  mayors — 
1898. . . 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  municipal  governments — 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902... 


Page. 

20 
34 
61 

77 
57 
67 
63 

20 
34 
61 

77 
57 
67 
63 


1904 
Of  tribal  courts — 

1895 75 

1897 54, 88 

Abolished— 

1898 26 

1899 38,168 

1900 65 

1901 81 

1902 61 

1903 71 

1904 67 

Appointment  of  guardians — 

1904 44 

Seminole  Nation — 

1897 78 

1899 88 

1901 55 

1902 82 

1903 92 

1904 88 

Transferred  to  United  States— 

1896 97, 114, 132, 145 

1897 99 

1899 68 

1900 57 

1901 73 

1902 53 

1903 63 

1904 59 

Of  United  States  court— 

1895 75 

1896 104 

1897 54, 88 

1898 41 

1899 28,  63 

Enforcement  of  tribal  laws — 

1898 2f, 

1899 3S, 168 

1900 65 

1901 81 

1902 61 

1903 71 

1904 67 

Extension  of,  recommended — 

1895 78 

Extension  of— 

1896 97, 114, 132, 145 

1897 54, 91, 99 

1898 8, 16, 26 

1899 31, 38, 68, 164, 165, 166 

1900 57,58,65 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


73 


Jurisdiction— Continued.  Page. 

Of  United  States  court- 
Extension  of — 

1901 73, 74, 81 , 183, 184, 185 

1902 53,54,61 

1903 :.  03,64,71 

1904 59, 60, 67 

In  citizenship  cases — 


1897 99 

1899 67, 128 

1900 56 

1901 13, 67,  72, 73, 147 


1902 

1903 

1904 

1905 

In  municipalities— 


1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Objection  of  Cherokees  to — 

1897 

Over  guardians — 

1904 

Seminole  Nation — 

1897 

1899 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Sulphur  Springs  Reservation — 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Suspension  of— 


100 
116 
107 


Of  town-site  commissioners— 

1901 64, 69 

Of  United  States  Indian  agent,  sale  of 
land— 

1904 123 

Jurors,  qualification  of: 

1896 105 

1897 16,100 

1898 34 

1899 43,57,68 

1900 57,70 

1901 73, 86 

1902 53,67 

1903 63,77 

1904 59,73 

Kansas,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1902 30 

Kansas  and  Arkansas  Valley  Railroad, 
reservation  for: 

1899 64 

Kansas  City,  Pittsburg  and  Gulf  Railroad, 
reservation  for: 

1 899 54 

Keetoowah  Society,  refusal  to  enroll: 

1902 29 


Kellyville,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1901 

1903 

Kemp,  S.  B.: 

Letter  to  Commission- 


Memorial  to  Congress— 

1897 :.... 

Kemp,  Isaac  C.,  memorial  of  Chickasaw 
freedmen: 

1894 

Kendall  College,  reservation  for: 

1897 

Kern,  Robert  H.,  fee  in  Cherokee  freed 
men  case: 

1899 

1901 

1903 

1904 

Kern -Clifton  roll: 
Inaccuracy  of — 

1897 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Preparation  of— 

1897 

Kiamitia  Mountains,  mineral  resources  of: 

1901 

Kidd,  Meredith  H.: 

Appointment  as  Commissioner— 

1900 

Letter  to  Legus  C.  Perryman,  July  25, 
1894— 

1894 

Letter  to  C.  J.  Harris,  July  25,  1894— 

1894 

Letter   to   John  F.  Brown,  July   28, 
1894— 

1894 

Retirement  from  Commission — 

1895 

Kimberlin,  Mary  Jane,  opinion  of  court 
of  appeals  in  citizenship  case  of: 

1901 

King,   Malinda,   decision  in  enrollment 
case  of: 

1903 

Kinta,  alienation   of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

1904 

1905 

Kiowa,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903 

Kiowa  Indians,  settlement  on  leased  dis 
trict: 

1894 

Laches  in  contest  cases: 

1903 

Lacie,  A.  L.,  letter  to  Commission: 
October  28,  1897— 

1897 

December  17,  1896— 

1896 

Lack  of  educational  facilities: 
For  noncitizen  children— 
1897... 


117 
21 

53 
52 


72 
94 
132 
138 


29,83 
123 
136 

141 

85 
37 


18 


198 


L'6 


158 


135 


74 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Lack  of  educational  facilities—  Continued. 
For  white  children— 
1898                                  

Page. 

9 

8 

105 
105 

19 
33 
60 
76 
56 
66 
62 

121 
121 
14 

72 

128 
39 
30 
32 

31 

42 
31 

18,82 
97 

105 
15,17 

104 

100 
27,68 
57 
73 
53 
63 
59,  126 

118 

Law  —  Continued. 
Of  descent  and  distribution  — 
Cherokee  Nation  — 
1902  .                 .              . 

Page. 

102 

118 
114 

C.2,  67 

1901 

Lamp  chimneys,  purchase  of,  for  field 
parties: 
1901                                   

1903.                      

1904  

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1901  

Lampwicks,  purchase  of,  for  field   par 
ties: 
190i                                                

1902  

90 
106 
102 

83,85 
99,101 
95,97 

54 
59 

83 
99 
89 

16 

98 
67 
56 
72 
52 
62 
58 

14 
31 
41 

68 
84 
65 
75 
71 

8 

51 
31 

0,15,48 

117 
99 

35 
44 
71 

87 
68 
78 

1903  

Allotments  to  be  confirmed  by  Secre 
tary  of  the  Interior— 

1898 

1904 

Creek  Nation— 
1902  

1903.                

1899 

1904  

1900                                        

Seminole  Nation— 
1900  

1901 

1902 

1901  

1903 

1902  

1904 

1903  

Appraisement     of,     Chickasaw    Na 
tion— 
1896 

1904 

Not  to  conflict  with  Constitution  of 
United  States— 
1894.  . 

Classification  of,   in    Chickasaw  Na 
tion— 
1896                                  

Tribal,  to  be  respected  in  enrollment 
ol  citizens  — 
1897r.  

Land  grants: 
To  railroads  — 
1894                          

1899  

1900 

Not  to  be  made  without  consent  of 
tribe— 
1897  

1901 

1902 

1903 

Land  office,  establishment  of: 
At  Boggy  Depot— 
1901 

1904 

Tribal  or  United  States,  not  to  be  in 
terfered  with    by  municipal  ordi 
nances  — 

1897 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1903 

At  Muskogee— 
1901 

1898                

1899 

At  Tahlequah— 
1904                                  a  

1900 

1901 

At-Wewoka— 
1901                 

1902                                                  .   . 

1903 

1902.            

1904                                               

1904  

Law  clerks,  essential  to  determination  of 
citizenship  cases: 
1905 

Land  offices,  establishment  of: 
1899 

1901 

Leased  district: 
Location  of  freedmen  upon— 
1894 

Lard,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 
1901 

Lawlessness,  influence  of: 
1894                    

Claim  of  freedmen  to  interest  in— 
1894                                 

Law: 
Of  Arkansas- 
Extended     over     Choctaw     and 
Chickasaw  nations  — 
1896 

Leased  district  claim: 
Of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1894                                                       1 

Payment  desired  by— 
Chickasaws— 
1896                                

Extended  over  Indian  Territory  — 
1897  

Choc  taws— 
1896     

1899  

1900  

Settlement  of— 
1898 

1901 

1902 

1899                                      

1903 

1900                           

1904 

1901 

Of  descent  and  distribution— 
1896... 

1902 

1903... 

Leased  district  fund: 

Claim  of  Chickasaw  freedmen  to— 

1894 

Leases: 

Commission    authorized    to    investi 
gate— 

1897 

1899.... 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 : 

Commission  directed  to  report  upon— 

1895 

For  agricultural  purposes,  form  of— 

1900 

For  grazing  purposes,  form  of — 

1900 

Of  Choctaw,  Oklahoma  and  Gulf  Rail 
road,  authorized — 

1904 

Of  coal  and  asphalt  land— 

1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Provisions  of  tribal  laws  governing— 

1896 

Recording  of — 

18% 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 
1897. . . 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Seminole  Nation- 

1897 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Termination  of— 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Leasing  of  allotments: 

1902 

1903 

1904... 


)IVI 

ge. 

,60 

LIZED   TRIBES. 

Leasing  of  allotments—  Continued. 
Cherokee  Nation— 
1900  

75 

Page. 
42 

Creek  Nation— 
1900 

52 

1901 

52 

99 

1902 

79 

67 

1903 

89 

56 

1904 

85 

72 
53 

Regulations  governing  — 
1899 

18,81 

63 

1901                    

96 

59 

Amendment  of  — 
1899.                       

83,84 

84 

1901.                

96,99 

75 

Leasing  of  coal  lands: 
1894  

15 

1896  

103,  104 

77 

Leasing  of  land: 
Act  of  June  28,  1898— 
1900 

30 

127 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1902 

109 

15 

1903 

125 

32 

1904 

121 

42 
69 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1897 

12 

85 

1898 

29 

66 

1899 

40 

76 

1900 

67 

72 

1901 

83 

1902 

63 

99 

1903 

73 

115 

1904 

69 

111 

For  grazing  purposes  — 
1899 

26 

113 

For  mining  purposes  — 
1896. 

104 

102 

Seminole  Nation  — 
1897  

77 

1901  

54 

12 

1902  

81 

'29 

1903  

91 

40 

1904  

87 

67 
83 

Terms  of— 
1896 

102 

63 
73 

Leasing  of  public  domain,  Creek  Nation: 
1899 

65 

69 
77 

Leasing  of  tribal  property: 
Cherokee  Nation  — 
1896 

125 

54 
81 

Creek  Nation— 
18%  

142 

91 

87 

Seminole  Nation— 
1896  

170 

25 

Lebanon  Orphan  Home,  reservation  for: 
1897 

11 

37 

1898 

27 

64 

1899 

39 

80 

1900  

66 

61 

1901  

82 

71 

1902  

62  92 

66 

1903 

72  108 

1904 

68  104 

87 
103 
99 

Legal  proceedings  against  tribal  govern 
ments: 
1896... 

105 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Legislation. 
Act  of  March  3,  1905— 
1905 

Page. 
6 

Little,  William  A.,  opinion  concerning 
rights  of  Cherokee  freedmen: 
1901 

Page. 
204 

Against  tribal  government  — 
1897  

16 

Location: 
Of  cemeteries  — 

1898  

34 

1896  

103 

1899 

43 

Of  coal  lands 

1900 

70 

1894 

35 

1901 

86 

Of  full  bloods— 

1902.                               

67 

1894 

15 

1903  

77 

Of  improvements  — 

1904  

73 

1904  

9 

Creek   Nation,    to   be   approved   by 
President— 

Of  ninety-eighth  meridian— 
1896  

99 

1899 

64 

Logan  Walter  S    relative  to  allotment  of 

President  to  supervise  Choctaw— 
1896  

99 

segregated  Delaware  lands: 
1903 

47 

Recommended  by  Commission— 
1895  

78 

Looney  v.  Jackson,  contest  of: 
1902 

148 

Required  for  prosecution  of  Commis 
sion's  work  — 

Lost  Creeks,  enrollment  of: 
1905 

28 

1897 

86 

Tribal,    subject   to   Presidental    ap 
proval  — 

lished  in: 
1898  

13 

1897  

54 

1899 

76 

Legislation  and  agreements: 
1900  

11 

Love,  Overton: 

1901  

9 

trict 

1902  

9 

1894 

50  51 

1903  

9 

Letter  to  Commission 

1904  

10 

October  24  1896 

Lee: 

1896  

112 

Establishment  of  town  site  at— 
1899  

61 

November  25,  1896— 
1896 

88  116 

Reservation  of  town  site  of— 
1900  

46 

Lowe  v.  Sango,  contest  case  of: 
1902 

131  138 

L  jliaetta,  reservation  of  town  site  at: 
1901 

39 

Loyal  Creek  claim: 

1903  

34 

Settlement  requested— 

Lester  v.  Smith,  contest  case  of: 
1902  

154 

Settlement  of— 

1903  

139 

Letter: 

1900 

49 

Of  Commission  to  — 

1901 

50 

Five  Tribes— 

1902 

77 

1895  

60 

1903 

87 

C.  J.  Harris,  July  25,  1894— 

1904  

83 

1894 

12 

D.  R.  Francis,  February  18,  1897,  trans 

Loyal  Seminole  claim: 
1897 

78 

mitting  annual  report  — 

1899  

88 

1901 

55 

Of  principal  chief,  Ferryman,  Creek 

1902 

82 

Nation— 

1903  

92 

64 

1904  

88 

Leaves  of  absences,  field  employees: 
1901 

108 

Lumber,  disposition  of  royalty  on: 

1898 

22 

1899 

35 

1897 

20 

1900  

62 

1901  

78 

'          -up 

1902  

58 

1897 

24 

1903  

68 

1904  

64 

1896  

117 

Lutheran  Mission  reservation  for  Chero 

Limitation  of  contests: 
1904  

194 

kee  Nation: 
1902 

103 

Litigation,  claim  of  Delaware  Indians: 

1903 

119 

1898... 

7 

1904... 

115 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


77 


Lynch,  J.  H.,  letter  to  Commission: 
December  16,  18%— 

18% 

December  18, 18%— 

18% 

Madill,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1901 

1903 

Male  Seminary,  Cherokee  Nation,  pay 
ment  for  improvements  of: 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Mandamus  proceedings: 

Enrollment  of  Cherokee  freedmen— 

1897 

Mary    Jane    Kimberlin    enrollment 
case — 

1901 

Manford,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

1905 

Manner  of  allotting  land: 

18% 

1904... 

Mansfield's  Digest: 

Adopted  by  act  of  March  1, 1899— 

18% 

Extended  over  Choctaw  and  Chicka 
saw  Nation— 


1899. 
1900. 
1901. 
1902. 


1904 

Map: 

Of  Cherokee  Nation- 
Showing  classification  of  land— 
1901 

Showing  status  of  allotment— 


1904 

Of  Chickasaw  Nation- 
Showing  classification  of  land— 

1901 

Showing  coal  and  asphalt  segre 
gations — 

1903 

Showing  status  of  allotment — 

1903 

1904 

Of  Choctaw  Nation- 
Showing  classification  of  land— 

1901 

Showing  coal  and  asphalt  segre 
gation— 

1903 

Showing  estimated  pine  forests — 

1904 

Showing  progress  of  land  classifi 
cation— 

1900 

Showing  status  of  allotment — 

1903 

1904...  


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161 
163 

39 
35 


109 
125 
121 


93 


65 

158 


104 


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43 

70 
86 
66 
76 

72 


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44, 192 
202 


219 


192 


192 
202 


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192 
202 

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192 

202 


Map — Continued.  Page. 

Of  Creek  Nation — 

Showing  status  of  allotment— 

1900 32 

1901 219 

1902 162 

1903 38,192 

1904 202 

Showing  land  covered  by  leases— 

1900 32 

Showing  location  of  coal  depos 
its— 

1903 192 

Showing  progress  of  subdivisional 
survey — 

1900 32 

Of  Creek  and  Seminole  nations,  show 
ing  classification  of  land— 

1901 219 

Of  Indian  Territory— 

1899 178 

1900 76 

1901 219 

1902 162 

1903 Frontispiece. 


1904. 


Showing  progress  of  subdivisional 
survey— 

1901 

1902 

Showing  railroads— 

1902 

Showing  segregation  town  sites — 

1902 

Of   Seminole  Nation,  showing  land 
allotted  to,  June  30,  1901— 

1901 

Showing  progress  of  classification 
of  land — 

1899 

Showing  unallotted  lands  of— 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Showing    progress   of    subdivisional 
survey— 

1903 

Showing  railroads  in  Indian  Terri 
tory— 

1903 

Of  railroads,  right  of  way,  filing  of — 

1904 

Marble,  enrollment  of  Cl\erokees  at: 

1902 

Marble  City,  alienation  of  land  for  town 
site  purposes  at: 

1905 

Marietta,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

18% 

Marlow,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 


202 


219 
162 


162 


162 


219 


162 
192 
202 


192 


192 


Marriage  license: 

Cost  of  Chickasaw— 
1900 

Cost  of  Choctaw— 
1900... 


63 
118 
118 

14 
14 


78 


THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Marriage  license—  Continued. 
Fee  for— 

1Q01 

Page. 
14 

72 
191 

13 
151 
105 

125 
29 
30 
32 
32 
35 
36 
126 
37 

29 
31 
32 
35 
37 

63 

20 
34 
61 

77 
57 
67 
63 

193 

39 
34 

35 
105 
105 

Mekasuka  Academy: 
Appropriation  for  — 
1897  

Page. 

77 
88 
55 
81 
91 
87 

77 
88 
55 
81 
91 
88 

30 

65 
37 

35 
23 
80 

12 
29 
40 
67 
83 
63 
73 
69 

20 
23 

31 

48,49 
59,66 

14,  209 

In  Chickasaw  Nation— 
1895 

1899  

1901  >  

Marshall,  Shepherd  v.,  contest  case  of: 
1904 

1902 

1903  

Martin,  Mary  Elizabeth    decision  of  De 
partment  in  enrollment  case  of: 

1905                                                                  

1904                                    

Reservation  for  — 
1897  

Marweoly  v.  Button,  contest  case  of: 

1899 

1901  

Matches  for  field  parties,  purchase  of: 

1902                             

1903  

Mayes,  Samuel  H.: 
Letter  of  Commission  to— 
July  10,  1896— 

1904  

Melvin: 
For  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at— 
1902  

March  27,  1897— 
1897                      

Alienation  of  land  for  town  site  pur 
poses  at— 
1905 

April  8,  1897— 
1897                  

Memoranda  cases,  act  of  May  31,  1905: 
1902                      .              

April  29,  1897— 
1897 

Memorial: 
Of  Chickasaw  freedmcn  — 
1894  

May  5,  1897— 

-1QQ7 

June  28,  1897— 
1897 

Of  Choctaw  colored  citizens'  associa 
tion— 
1894 

August  4,  1897— 
1897 

Of  Choctaw  council  concerning  re 
moval  of  Mississippi  Choctaws  — 
1899  

August  7,  1896— 

September  8,  1897— 
1897 

Meridian: 
Location  of  ninety-eighth  — 
1897                      

Letter  to  Commission- 
April  3,  1897— 

1898               

1899  

April  27,  1897— 
1897  

1900      

1901  

May  6,  1897— 
1897 

1902 

1903 

July  19,  1897— 
1897  

1904 

Identification    of     Mississippi    Choc- 
taws  at  — 
1901 

September  3,  1897— 

1897 

Maysville,  alienation  of  land  for  town 
site  purposes  at: 
1905 

1902 

Message: 
Of  President  Harrison,  concerning  — 
Chickasaw  freedmen  — 
1894               

Mayors,  jurisdiction  of: 

1898 

1899 

Choctaw  and    Chickasaw    freed 
men  — 

1894 

1900                       .                    

1901 

1902                

Of  Isparhecher— 

1897 

1903 

1904  

Of  Hon.  P.  H.  Johnson,  governor  of 
the  Chickasaw  Nation— 
1901                               .          

Mayor  v.  Thompson,  contest  case  of: 
1904 

Mazie,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1901 

Of  Hon.  Green  McCurtain,  principal 
chief  of  the  Choctaw  Nation— 
1901          

14,  215 
155 
152.  161 

1903 

Mead,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1903.              

Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South,  con 
test  of  Griffith  v.: 
1903                                                  

Meat,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 
1901 

Micco,  Concharty,  letter  to  Commission: 
December  16,  1896— 
1896... 

Medicine,  purchase  of,  for  field  parties: 
1901... 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


79 


Mieco,  Concharty,  letter  to  Commission  — 
Continued. 
December  18,  1896— 
1896  

Page. 
163 

Mineral  leases—  Continued. 
To  be  made  with  Seminole  tribal  gov 
ernment— 
1902 

Page. 

September  27,  1897— 

1903  

91 

1897  

56 

1904 

Military  reservation  at  Fort  Gibson: 
1899  

54 

Mineral  resources  of  Choctaw  Nation: 
1901 

Milk  allowed  field  parties: 
1901 

105 

Mineral  royalties: 

37 

Mill  Creek,  alienation  of  land  for  town- 

Disposition  of— 
1896  

103  120 

site  purposes  at: 

1898  

8 

1905  

29 
63 

Freedmen  not  to  participate  in— 

IjJQfi 

Minco,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1896  

118 

Mineral  royalty: 

104 

Mineral  land: 

Disposition  of,  Seminole  Nation  — 
1897  

77 

1896 

1901  

54 

1897 

1902  

81 

1903  

91 

1896 

1904  

87 

Choctaw  Nation— 
1896  

97 

Mingo,  Joseph,  letter  to  Commission: 
December  16,  1896— 

Creek  Nation— 

1896  

152  161 

1896                 '                         145 

164  155 

December  18  1896— 

Leasing  of  — 

1896  '.... 

163 

1896  

104 

September  27  1897  — 

Regulations  for  leasing  — 

1897  

56 

1898  

19 

Mingo  v.  Howard,  contest  case  of: 

1899 

33 

1903  

155 

1900  

60 

Mining,  payment  for  damage  on  account 

1901  

76 

of: 

1902 

1896  

101 

1903 

1898  

19 

1904 

1899  

33 

1900  

60 

1896                                                    101 

1901  

76 

1898 

1902  

56 

1899 

1903  

66 

1900 

K.n 

1904  

62 

1901  

75 

Mining  laws: 

1902 

KR 

1896  

113 

1903  

65 

Mining  trustees,  provisions  for: 

1904 

61 

1897  

15 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1898  

32 

1894 

jj 

1899  

42 

In  Chickasaw  Nation 

1900  

69 

1894 

10 

1901  

85 

1902 

65 

1894 

1903  

75 

1904 

71 

1894  

13 

Minors* 

Division  of,  act  of  Choctaw  council— 
1895  

87 

Acceptance  of  patents  for— 
1901 

64  69 

Mineral  leases: 

1902  

100  108 

To  be  approved  by  Secretary  of  the 

1903 

116  124 

Interior— 

1904 

112  120 

1897  

77 

1901  

54 

1897 

12 

1902  

81 

1898 

28 

1903  

91 

1899 

39 

1904  

87 

1900 

66 

To  be  made  with  Seminole  tribal  gov 

1901  

82 

ernment— 

1902 

63 

1897  

77 

1903 

1901  

54 

1904... 

69 

80 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Minors— Continued.  Page. 

Enrollment  of,  in  Cherokee  Nation— 

1897 36 

Guardians  for,  Creek  Nation — 

1900 51 

1901 52 

1902 78 

1903 88 

1904 84 

Selection  of  allotments  for — 

1896 101 

1897 12,51 

1898 28,37 

1899 39,40,50,60 

1900 36, 45, 66, 67 

1901 65,  70, 82, 83 

1902 63,  73, 87, 100, 108 

1903 42, 52,  73, 83, 103, 116, 124 

1904 69, 79, 112, 120 

Taxation  of  lands— 

1900 36 

Misinterpretation    of   Commission's,  ad 
dressed  to  Indians: 

1894 - 8 

Misinterpretation  of  treaty,  stipulation  by 
Indians: 

1894 16 

Missionaries: 

Reservation  for— 

1897 11 

1904 68 

Creek  Nation— 

1897 52 

Missionary  work,  counteraction  of- 

1894 20 

Mississippi: 

Notice  of  allotment  to  be  published 
in — 

1898 13 

1899 76 

Sale  of  Choctaw  orphan  lands — 
1896... 


1898. 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904.. 

Mississippi  Choctaws: 

Act  of  June  7,  1897,   provisions  con 
cerning — 


106 
17 
36 
45 
72 


1899 74 

Allotment  of  land  to — 

1902 96 

1903 112 

1904 11,108 

Claims  of— 

1898 10 

1899 73 

Commission  directed  to — 
Investigate  claims  of — 

1897 99 

1899 68 

1900 57 

1901....  73 


Mississippi  Choctaws— Continued. 
Commission  directed  to— 
Investgate  claims  of— 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Report  upon— 

1897 

1899 

1901 

Contracts  for  sale  of  land — 


Dead  claims— 

1901 

Deed  issued  to,  by  President  Polk— 

1901 

Difficulties  in  identification — 

1899 

Identification  of— 

1898 

1899 10 

1900 1 

1901 62,  Gti 

1902 22,  60 

1903 16,70, 

1904 66, 

1905 

Laws  of  descent  and  distribution — 

1901 

Location  of— 

1898 

1899 

Number  of— 

1905 

Progress  of  identification  of— 

1904 

Removal  to  Indian  Territory — 

1898 

1899 

1901 

1904 

Right  to  share  in  tribal  property — 

1901 

Report  of  Commission — 

Concerning— 

1898.... 

Dated  January  28, 1898— 

1898 

1899 

March  10, 1899- 


Page. 


53 
63 
59 

93 
165 
184 

80 

63,66 
219 

78 

7,24 

,  17,  36 
,  63,  73 
,  79, 89 
,  69,  96 
79,112 
75, 108 
22 

63,66 

10 
73 

23 

18 

13 

76,80 
62,66 
19 

21 


Reservation  for,  in  Mississippi — 

1898 

1899 

Selection  of  allotments  for — 

1903 

Table  showing  genealogy  of— 

1902 

Treaty  of  1830,  provisions  affecting— 


1899 

Treaty  of  Dancing  Rabbit  Creek — 

1898 

1899 

Mississippi  Choctaw  case  of  Jack  Amos 

et  al.,  decision  of  United  States  court  in: 

1899 

1901... 


77 


52 
162 


92 
111 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


81 


Mississippi  Choctavv  cases:  Page. 

Decision  of  Commission  in — 

1902 26 

Regulations  governing     depositions 
in— 

1902 117 

Missouri,  Kansas  and  Texas  Railroad: 
Argument  of — 

1897 63 

Claim  to  alternate  sections  of  land— 

1897 38,90,91 

Reservation  for — 

1899 53 

Molasses,  amount  allotted  to  field  parties: 

1901 105 

Money  per  capita,  distribution  of,  Chicka- 
saw  Nation: 

1894 10 

Monopoly: 

Of  coal  fields— 

1895 69 

Of  land— 


1895 

1897 

Commission  directed  to  report 
upon — 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902... 


1904 

Effect  of,  in  Indian  Territory — 

1897 

Penalty  for— 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Montgomery,  A.  B.: 

Appointment  as  commissioner — 

1895 

1900 

Illness  of— 

1896 

Letter  to  chiefs  of  Five  Tribes- 
June  5,  1895— 

1895 . 

July  1,  1896— 

18% 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner- 
July  1,  1896— 

1896 

July  10,  1896— 


Letter  to  John  F.  Brown,  July  10, 1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosley— 
July  10,  1896— 

1896 

September  28,  1895— 
1895... 


87 


C6 


59 

7 

144 


63 

84 

93 
95 
169 

110 
66 


Montgomery,  A.  B. — Continued. 

Letter  to  Samuel  H.  Mayes,  July  10, 
1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Isparhecher,  July  10,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Creek  Commission- 
September  14,  189v>— 

1896 

September  26,  1896— 


December  15, 1896— 

1896 

December  16,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  D.  W.  Bushyhead,  Septem 
ber  16,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  John  L.  Adair,  September 
16,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  principal  chief,  Creek  Na 
tion,  October  4,  1895— 

1895 

Letter  to  R.  M.  Harris,  October  23, 
1886— 

1896 

Letter  to  Hon.  Green  McCurtain,  Oc 
tober  25, 1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Olosachubbee,  October  30, 
1895— 

1895 

Letter  to  Cherokee  Commission,  De 
cember  17,  1896— 

1896 

Moodys,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1902 

Moore,  N.  B.,  appointment  as  Creek  na 
tional  treasurer: 

1897 

Morris,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

1904 

1905 

Morris  v.  Fields,  contest  case  of: 

1902 

Morse,  for  enrollment  of  Creeks  at: 

1902 

Mosley,  P.  S.: 

Letter  to  Commission- 
September  27,  1895— 

1895 

November  1, 1895— 

1895 

July  10,  1896— 


Page. 


125 


141 


145 


146 


161 


163 


130 


130 


67 


114 


97 


97 


135, 136 


29 
63,65 


140 


July  23,  1896— 

1896 

August  3,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  of  Commission  to — 
July  10, 1896— 

1896 

July  26,  1896— 

1896 

August  8,  1896— 

1896... 


66 


110 


109 


110 


109 


109 


111 


15013—06 6 


82 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TKIBES. 


Motion  for  appeal,  suit  of  Cherokee  f  reed- 
men: 
1899  

Page. 

70 

Municipal  government: 
Establishment  of: 
1900. 

Page. 

38 

1901 

92 

1903 

130 

1899 

90 

1904          ..                                 ... 

136 

1901 

58 

Motion  for  rehearing,  citizenship  case  of 

1902 

111 

Wm.  J.  Watts  et  al: 

1903 

129 

1899 

142 

1904 

j->9 

1901                                                .     . 

161 

Jurisdiction  of 

Motion  for  rehearing  and  review: 

1898  

20 

1903  

166 

1899 

34 

1904  

200 

1900 

61 

Motion  for  review  in  contest  cases: 

1901... 

77 

1902 

161 

1902 

Mounds,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903  .   .   . 

67 

1900             

48 

1904 

63 

1901  

39,49 

Lack  of— 

1902  

76 

1895 

71 

1903 

34  86 

1904 

82 

1896 

103 

Muldrow,  for  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1900 

25 

Municipal  incorporation: 
1902 

98 

1901              

23 

1903  

114 

Mullen  J.  P.: 

1904  

110 

Attorney  for  Chickasaw  freedmen  — 
1894 

35 

Municipal  laws,  not  to  conflict  with  Con 
stitution* 

Memorial  of  Choctaw  freedmen  — 

1897  

54 

1894  

32 

Municipal   ordinances   not   to  interfere 

Memorial  of  Chickasaw  freedmen— 
1894 

53 

with  tribal  or  United  States  laws: 
1897 

14 

Mules  purchase  of* 

1898 

31 

1899 

12 

1899 

41 

Municipal  authority  extended  over  cer 

1900 

68 

tain  land  adjacent  to  Fort  Smith* 

1901 

84 

1898         

17 

1902 

C,5 

1899  

32 

1903          

75 

1900     

59 

1904  

71 

1901  

75 

Municipal  tax,  provisions  for: 

1902  

55 

1895  

71 

1903 

65 

Murder  frequency  of' 

1904 

61 

1894 

17 

Municipal  bonds,  issuance  of: 

1895  

75,  76 

1899 

63 

Murrow  J  S    reservation  for* 

1900 

41 

1902 

«J2 

Municipal  corporations,  authority  of  • 

1903 

107 

1899  

58 

1904 

104 

1900  

41,49 

Murrow  Orphan  Home  reservation  for* 

1901 

50 

1897 

•\  i 

1902 

1898 

27 

1903 

87 

1899 

39 

1904 

83 

1900          

f>6 

1901 

82 

1898 

20 

1902.            

02 

1899 

34 

1903  

72 

1900 

61 

1904  

68 

1901  

77 

Muscogee: 

1902 

57 

Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 

At  Wewoka— 

1899 

90 

poses  at— 
1904 

29 

1901     

58 

1905                                                    63 

64  65 

1902  

110 

Enrollment  of  — 

1903  

129 

Cherokee  freedmen  at: 

1904 

129 

1902 

33 

Provision  for— 
1899 

58  63 

Cherokees  at— 
1905 

23 

Qualifications  of  voters  at  — 
1896... 

103 

Children  at— 
1905...                                      ..  19 

,  30.  33 

THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


83 


Page. 

11 

59 

99, 100, 133, 144, 148, 149 
47,48,64,74 


Mascogee— Continued. 
Conference  at — 

1894 

1895 

1896 

1897 

Establishment  of — 

Auxiliary   Cherokee    land    office 
at— 

1905 47 

Creek  land  office  at— 

1899 18 

1901 30 

1905 50 

Headquarters  established  at — 

1894 7 

1895 59 

Removal  of  headquarters  to— 

1897 7 

Reservation  for  town  site  at — 

1899 61 

1900 46 

Muscogee  Nation.    (See  Creek  Nation.) 
Mustard,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 106 

McClendon,   W.   H.,  reimbursement  for 
services: 

1897 99 

1899 68 

1900 57 

1901 73 

1902 53 

1903 63 

1904 59 

McAlester,  international  conference  at: 

1896 134 

McCoy,  Clay,  departmental  decision,  en 
rollment  case  of: 

1905 14 

McCurtain,  Green: 

Annual  message  of — 

1901 14 

Letter  of  Commission  to — 
July  1,  1896— 


October  25,  1896— 

1896 

March  23,  1897— 

1897 

June  28, 1897— 

1897 

July  22,  1897— 

1897 

August  4,  1897— 

1897 

August  13,  1897— 

1897 

July  30,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  Commission- 
October  15, 1896— 

1896 

October  27,  1896— 


July  10,  1897— 
1897... 


97 


18 


IS 


1'J 


'20 


19 


96 


is 


McCurtain,  Green — Continued.  Page 

Letter  to  Commission — 
July  17, 1897— 

1897 13 

August  11,  1897— 

1897 20 

August  17,  1897— 

1897 20 

November  15,  1897— 

1897 21 

McGeisey,  Thomas,  appointed  Seminole 
town-site  commissioner: 

1899 89 

1901 57 

1902 Hi 

1903 129 

1904 129 

Mclntosh,  Roley: 

Conference  with— 

1896 141 

Letter  to  Commission- 
August  12,  1896— 

1896 143 

August  13,  1896— 

1896 143 

McKenney,  Wesley,  memorial  of  Choctaw 
freedmen: 

1894 32 

McKennon,  A.  S.: 

Letter  to  chief  of  Five  Tribes- 


Letter  to  C.  J.  Harris,  July  25,  1894— 

1894 

Letter  to  Legus  C.  Ferryman,  July  25, 
1894— 

1894 

Letter  to  R.  M.  Harris- 
July  26,  1897— 

1897 

October  23,  1896— 

1896 

October  29,  1896— 
1896. . . 


Letter  to  John  F.  Brown — 
July  28, 1894— 

1894 

July  10,  1896— 

1896 

August  8,  1896— 

1896... 


25 


114 


115 


169 


170 


Letter  to  chiefs  of  Five  Tribes,  June  5, 
1895— 

1895 63 

Letter  to  P.  S.  Mosley— 
September  28, 1895— 

1895 66 

July  10,  1896— 

1896 110 

July  26,  1896— 

1896 109 

August  8,  1896— 

1896 ; HI 

Letter  to  principal  chief  of  Creek  Na 
tion,  October  4,  1895— 
1895 67 


84 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


McKennon,  A.  S.— Continued. 

Letter  to  Olosachubbee,  October  30, 
1896— 

1895 

Letter  to  Hon.  Jeff  Gardner- 
July  1,  1896— 

18% 

July  10,  1896— 


August  8,  1896— 

1896 

Letter  to  Hon.  Green  McCurtain— 
July  1,  1896— 

1896 

October  25,  1896— 

1896 , 

August  13,  1897— 

1897 

August  17,  1897— 

1897 

Letter  to  Isparhecher— 
July  10,  1896— 


August  7,  1896— 
1896... 


Letter  to  Samuel  H. 
July  10, 1896— 

1896 

August  7,  1896— 

1896 

August  4,  1897— 

1897... 


Mayes— 


Letter  to  Roley  Mclntosh,  August  13, 
18%- 


Letter  to  W.  A.  Sapulpa— 
August  17,  1896— 

1896 

August  18,  1896— 

1896 

August  22,  1896— 

1896 

August  25,  1896— 

18% 

August  27,  1896— 

1896... 


Letter  to  Creek  Commission — 
September  14,  1896— 


September  26,  1896— 
1896 

December  15,  1896— 
1896 

December  16, 1896— 


Letter  to  John  L.  Adair,  September  16, 
1896— 

18% 

Letter  to  D.  W.  Bushyhead— 
September  16, 1896— 

1896 

September  21, 1896— 

1896.! 

Letter  to  Richard  McLish— 
October  31,  1896— 
1896... 


?e. 
67 

McKennon,  A.  S.—  Continued. 
Letter  to  Cherokee  Commission- 
December  17,  1896— 
1896  ... 

Page. 
135  136 

December  18,  1896— 
18%.. 

137 

93 
95 

Reimbursement  for  amount  expended 
for  clerical  assistance— 
1897 

99 

1899. 

68 

% 

1900  

57 

1901  

73 

1902  

53 

98 

1903 

63 

1904 

59 

97 

Resignation  as  commissioner  — 
1900  

33 

20 

Retirement  of— 
1900  

7 

20 

McLain,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1902 

30 

141 
14? 

McLish,  Richard: 
Letter  to  Commission  — 
October  29,  18%— 
1896 

115 

November  25,  1896— 
1896                                              88 

116  117 

125 

Letter  of  Commission  to,  October  31, 
1896— 
1896  

116 

Memorial  to  Congress— 
1897  

24 

McNac  v.Wadsworth: 
Contest  case  of  — 
1902  

147 

143 

Decision  of  Department  in    contest 
case  of  — 
1902 

48 

143 

144 

Narcissa,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at  — 
1905  

64  65 

144 

Nar  wal  le  pe  es,  enrollment  of: 
1902  

86 

1903  

102 

144 

1904  

98 

145 

Nazareth  Institute: 
Disposition  of  land— 
1900  

48 

1901  

49 

145 

1902 

76 

1903 

86 

146 

1904 

82 

161 

Reservation  for— 

1897.       .  .. 

52 

163 

New  Echota,  treaty  of: 
1899  

96  115 

1901  

135 

130 

Negotiations: 
Authorized  by- 
Cherokee  council— 
1896 

128 

130 

Chickasaw  council  — 
1896  

111 

131 

Choctaw  council  — 
1895  

87 

116- 

Creek  council— 
18%... 

156 

THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


85 


N  egotiations  —  Continued  . 
Authorized  by- 
Five  Tribes 

Page. 

Notice—  Con  ti  nued  . 
Of  contest  and  summons,  form  of— 
1899 

Page. 

21  <S4 

1895 

88 

Of  contest  — 

Failure  of— 

By  publication  — 
1903 

164 

1897 

34 

1904  

198 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1897 

90 

Service  of— 
1899  

85 

1901 

101 

1902 

113 

1897                                .              .... 

83 

Of  decision  contest  cases  — 

With.  Cherokees 

1903 

159 

1900.  .     .     .            

11 

Of   enrollment   of   children,    act  of 

Cause  for  failure— 
1897 

38 

March  3— 
1905  

30,33 

With  Creek  Nation— 
1894 

8 

Of  elections,  provision  for— 
1899  

58 

1900                                           

11 

Of  enrollment  of  Choctaw  and  Chicka 

With  Five  Tribes— 
1895 

85 

saw  children  under  act  of  March  3— 
1905 

19 

Needmore,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1902  

30 

Of  establishment  of  auxiliary  Chero 
kee  land  office  at  Muscogee  — 

Negroes  treatment  and  condition  of* 

1905 

47 

1894 

19 

Of  municipal  elections,   publication 

Nelson  v.  Fields,  contest  case  of: 
1902 

139 

of— 
1899  

58,63 

New  Hope  Seminary,  reservation  for: 
1896.     . 

101 

Of  opening  of  Creek  land  office— 
1899  

18 

Newyaka  boarding   school,    reservation 
for: 
1897  

52 

Publication  of  Choctaw  and  Chicka 
saw  citiaenship  cases— 
1901  

61 

1899  

61 

Nowata: 

1900 

49 

Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 

1901 

50 

poses  at  — 

1902 

77 

1905 

64 

1903 

87 

Appointment  at  for  enrollment  — 

1904 

83 

1900  

25 

Noncitizens: 

1901  

23 

In  possession  of  land— 
1894  

14 

United  States  commission  to  be  locat 
ed  at  — 

Lack  of,  educational  facilities  for 

1899  

57 

1899  

28 

Oakland,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

Number  of  in  Indian  Territory 

1896 

118 

1897 

28 

Oath  required  of  employees  speculation 

North  Carolina  Cherokees,  resolution  of 
Cherokee  council  concerning* 

in  Indian  lands: 
1904          .... 

124 

1899  

140 

Oath  of  allegiance,  form  required  of  at 

1901  

159 

torneys: 

North  Coalgate,  reservation  for  town  site 

1901  

103 

at: 

1902  

115 

1903  

34 

1903  

167 

North  Fork  reservation  for  town  site  at* 

1904 

201 

1903.. 

34 

Oaths  commission  authorized  to  admin 

Notice  of  allotment  to  be  published  in  va 
rious  States: 

ister: 
1896  

83 

1898  

13 

1897  

98 

1899  

76 

1898  

24 

Notice: 

1899 

36  67 

Of  closing  of  Creek  rolls  — 

1900 

56  63 

1904  

21 

1901. 

72  79 

Of  contest— 

1902  

52  60 

1899  

85 

1903  

62,70 

1901  

100 

1904 

58  66 

1902  

112,  159 

Objection  of  Chickasaws* 

1903. 

159  163 

1904... 

194,  201 

1897... 

22 

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Objection  of  Chickasaws—  Continued. 
To  proposed  agreement— 

1897 

Page. 
21 

Okemah: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at  — 

Page. 

1904. 

29 

1905  

64 

1895 

64 

Oklahoma: 

To  union  with  Oklahoma— 

laOfi 

159 

Sale  of,  by  Creek  Nation— 
1897  

69 

Ochelata,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

Objection  of  — 
Creeks  to  union  with  — 
1897  

62 

1905                                    

64 

Oil: 

Indians  to  union  with— 
1896 

159 

Discovery  of,  at  Red  Fork— 
1901                

31 

Oktaha: 

Disposition  of  revenue  from— 
1896  

103 

poses  at— 
1904 

2Q 

Effect  of  discovery  on— 

1905. 

64 

Contests— 
1904  

48 

Reservation  for  town  site  at  — 
1901 

39 

Allotment  of  land  — 

1903  

34 

1905               

6  40 

Oil  land: 
Disposition  of— 
1897 

23 

Okmulgee: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at  — 
1904 

29 

Reservation  of  — 

1905 

64 

1896  

101 

Conference  at  — 

1898 

18 

1894 

g 

1899 

32 

1896 

141  144 

1900 

59 

Enrollment  of  — 

1901 

75 

Creeks  at  — 

1902 

55 

1897 

57  64 

1903 

65 

1901 

28 

1904                   

61 

1904 

20 

Regulations  for  leasing— 

1898 

19 

Children  at— 
1905  

30 

1899 

33 

International  council  at  — 

1900 

60 

1896  

153 

1901  

76 

Reservation  for— 

1902  

56 

Capitol  building  at— 

1903 

66 

1899  

61,63 

1904  

62 

Town  site  at— 

1897 

52 

Oil  leases: 

1900 

46 

To  be  approved  by  Secretary  of  Inte 

1901 

39 

rior: 

1903 

34 

1897  

77 

1901  

54 

Temporary  allotment  office  at  — 

1901  

30 

1903 

91 

Session  of  Creek  council  at— 

1895 

60 

1904 

87 

To  be  made  with  Seminole  tribal  gov 

Okmulgee  Oil  Company,  arguments  of: 
1897 

53 

ernment— 

1897 

77 

Olasachubbee: 

1901 

54 

1902 

81 

1903  

91 

1895 

66 

1904.   ...                           

87 

Oil  royalties,  disposition  of: 
Chickasaw  Nation  — 

1895— 
1895 

66 

1896 

120 

Letter   of    Commission    October   30, 

Seminole  Nation  — 
1897 

77 

1895— 
1895 

67 

1901  

54 

Olive,  W.  S.,  reimbursement  for  service 

1902 

81 

rendered1 

1903 

91 

1897 

99 

1904... 

87 

1899... 

68 

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Olive,  W.  S.,  reimbursement  for  service 
rendered — Continued. 

1900 

3901 

3902; 

1903 

1904 

Olmstead,  George  T.,  efforts  in  behalf  of 
Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1894 

Olney,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at:, 

1904 

1905 

Oolagah,  for  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1900 

Opinion  of  Assistant  Attorney-General: 
Approval  of  leases  by  Secretary  of  the 
Interior— 

1900 

As  to  allotment  of  full  bloods— 

1905 

As   to   sale    of    Delaware    improve 
ments — 

1905 

Citizenship  case  of— 
Clay  McCoy— 

1905 

Mary  Elizabeth  Martin— 

1905 

Joe  and  Dillard  Perry — 

1905 

William  C.  Thompson— 

1905 

Benjamin  J.  Vaughn — 

1905 

Lula  West— 

1905 

Enrollment  of  Cherokee  freedmen— 

1904 

Resolutions  of  August  28,  1903 — 

1904 

Rights  of  Cherokee  freedmen — 

1901 

Act  of  May  31,  1900— 

1900 

Cherokee  citizenship— 

1895 

Enrollment — 

Joseph  D.  Yeargain  et  al. — 

1904 

Scott  A.  Yeargain — 

1904 

Right   of   Choctaw   and    Chickasaw 
freedmen  to  allotments— 

1901 

Opinion  of  citizenship  court: 

Choctaw- Chickasaw  enrollment 


1904 

Of  Thomas  Britton  et  al.— 

1904 

In  enrollment  case  of  Lula  B.  Tra- 
hern — 
1904 

Court  of  Claims,  enrollment  of  Chero 
kee  freedmen— 
1902... 


Page. 

57 
73 
53 
63 
59 


39 

29 
64 

25 

31 
36 

42 

14 

13 

16 

16 

14 

15 

166 

43 

204 

208 

74 

26 
25 

206 

130 
130 

131 


Opinion  of  Judge  Clayton: 

Citizenship  case  of  Jack  Amos  et  al. 


1901 

In  citizenship 

1899 

Opinion  of  Judge  Springer: 
In  citizenship  cases — 

1901 

In  Cherokee  citizenship  cases — 

1899 

1901 

In  citizenship  case  of— 

Caleb  W.  Hubbard  et  al.— 


1901 

William  J.  Watts— 

1899 

1901 

In  Creek  citizenship  cases — 

1899 

1901 

Opinion  of  Judge  Townsend  in  citizen 
ship  cases: 

1899 

1901 

Opinion  of  Supreme  Court: 

Citizenship  case  of  William  Stephen 
et  al.— 

1899 

1901 

Suit  of  Eastern  Band  of  Cherokees — 

1899 

1901 

Opinion  of  United  States  court,  enroll 
ment  of  Cherokee  freedmen: 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Opposition: 

To  allotment— 

1905 

To  allotment  by  full  bloods — 

1905 

To  work  of  Commission — 

1894 

Order: 

Of   Court  of   Claims,  enrollment  of 
Cherokee  freedmen— 

1899 

1901 

1903 

1904 

Of    Department   closing   citizenship 
rolls— 

1905 

Of    Indian     agent,    enrollment     of 
Creeks— 

1897 

Ordinances,  municipal,  not  to  interfere 
with  tribal  or  United  States  laws: 

1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904... 


Page. 

92 
111 

91 


110 


112 
131 


147 
166 


133 

152 


156 
175 


108 
127 


188 


119 
138 


119 
136 
142 


72 

94 

132 

138 


28 


65 


88 


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Orphan  Asylum: 
Appraisement  for  Cherokee  — 
1902        

Page. 

109 
125 
121 

105 
121 
117 

109 
125 
121 

103 
119 
115 

50 
40 

105 
121 
117 

61 

100,106 
17 
36 
45 
72 
88 
68 
78 
74 

82 
97 

14 

131 
150 

172 

29 
64 

30 
118 

64 
127 

Pann,  Robin  —  Continued. 
Letter  of  Commission,  December  17, 
1896— 
1896 

Page. 
135 

38 

118 
188 

72 
57 

54 
103 
119 
115 

7 

28 
45 

21,22 

1903 

1904 

Letter    to    Commission,    October   28, 
1897— 
1897  

Provision  for  maintenance  of  Chero 
kee— 
1902                      

Panola  County,  reservation  for  town  sites 
in: 
1896 

1903 

1904  

Payment  of  improvements  of  Chero 
kee— 
1902                      

Paquin  v.  Davis,  contest  case  of: 
1904 

Pardon: 
For  convicted  Seminoles  — 
1897 

1903 

1904 

Reservation  for  Cherokee— 
1902 

Provisions  for  — 
1899  

1904                               

Park  Hill  Mission  School,  reservation  for, 
Cherokee  Nation: 
1899                  

Orphan  fund: 
Disposition  of  Cherokee  — 
1899 

1902  

1900 

1903 

Interest  to  be  used  in  maintaining 
Cherokee  Orphan  Asylum  — 
1902                               

1904 

Paris,  suggested  as  place  for  conference 
with  Choc  taws: 
1897 

1903  

1904  

Parker,  I.  C.: 
Decision  in  case  of  United  States  v, 
Payne,  right  to  locate  freedmen  in 
country  ceded  by  Seminole  treaty 
of  1866— 

Orphan  Home,  reservation  for  Creek: 
1899 

Orphan  lands,  sale  of,  in  Mississippi: 
18% 

1897  

1898                   .                  

Decision  of  — 

1899  

1900 

Parks: 
Provision  for  — 

1901 

1902  

1903  

1904  

Orphans,  selection  of  allotments  for: 
1899  

1901               47 

,  78,  89 
,  70,  74 
80,84 
76,80 

89 
57 
111 
128 
129 

14,54 
18,32 
,61,63 
,  59,  69 

1901  

Outlet: 
Cherokee,  agreement  concerning  not 
to  be  impaired— 
1894  

1904 

Provisions  for,  at  Wewoka— 
1899                                                

Cherokee  Nation,  purchase  of  — 
1899  

1902                        

1901  

Owen,  Robert  L.,  excessive  holdings  of: 
1904 

Parsonages,  reservation  for: 
1897 

Paden: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at  — 

1898 

1899                                                     32,  42,  53 

1900  48 

1901  49 

,  75,  85 
56,  76 
,  75,  86 
,  71,  82 

Enrollment  of  children— 

1902 

1903  66 

Paola,  reservation  for  town  site  at  — 
1896          

1904                                                      62 

In  town  sites— 
1902                                

107 
123 
119 

39 

Panama,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at  — 

1903 

1904  

Pann,  Robin: 
Appointed  Cherokee  commissioner— 
1896... 

Parsons,  A.,  report  concerning  Choctaw 
and  Chickasaw  freedmen: 
1894...                                 

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Passenger  rate:  Page. 

1903 94 

1904 90 

Patent: 

Issued   to    Mississippi   Choctaws   by 
President  Polk— 

1901 219 

To  Creek  domain  treaty  of  1834 — 

1899 156 

1901 175 

Patents: 

Acceptance  of,  by  allottees — 

1904 194 

Approval   by  Secretary  of   Interior, 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1897 12 

1898 29 

1899 40 

1900 .' 67 

1901 83 

1902 63 

1903....; -. 73 

1904 69 

Form  of— 

Cherokee  allotment— 

1904 50 

Cherokee  homesteads — 

1904 50 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw    home 
steads — 

1904 51,62 

Choctaw    and  Chickasaw    freed- 
men — 

1904 54, 55 

Creek  allotment— 

1902 162 

1903 168 

Creek  homestead — 

1902 162 

1904 168 

Issuance — 

1896 100,118 

1897 22 

Issuance  to— 
Cherokees— 

1899 50 

1900 39 

1902 107 

1903 123 

1904 41,119 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw— 

1897 12 

1898 29 

1899 40 

1900 67 

1901 62,65,83 

1902 63, 100 

1903 73,116 

1904 47, 69, 112 

Creeks— 

1897 52 

1899 60 

1900 48 

1901 49 

1902 76 

1903 38,86 

1904...  82 


Patents— Continued. 
Issuance  to — 
Seminoles — 

1897 , 

1899 

1901 

1902. . . 


78 

88 

55 

81 

1903 91,126 

1904 30,87,122 


Preparation  of— 

1905 

Cherokee — 

1905 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw — 

1905 

Creek— 

1904 

1905 

Seminole— 

1905... 


r>7 


58 


57 


60 


Recording  of— 

1897 53 

1898 39 

1900 43 

1901 64,69 

1905 60 

Cherokee — 

1900 39 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw— 

1897... 


13 

29 

40 

67 

83 

1902 63,100 

1903 73,116 

1904 69,112 

Creek— 


1899. 
1900. 
1901. 


1899. 
1900. 
1901. 
1902. 


64 

48 

50 

76 

1903 39,86 

1904 82 

Seminole— 

1903 126 

1904...  122 


To  cemeteries— 

1896 

1897... 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

To  homesteads,  Creek  Nation— 

1899 

1902 , 

1903 

1904 

To  town  lots- 
Issuance  of — 
1899... 


103 

14 

31 

41,63 

68 
84 
65 
85 
71 

60 
87 
103 
99 


62 

1901 64,69 


90 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Patents—  Continued. 
To  town  lots- 
Cherokee  Nation— 
1899 

Page. 

52 
119 

77 
88 
55 
81 
91 
87 

2 

20 
118 

65 

19 
33 
61 
76 
56 
66 
63 

93 
90 

51,52 
37,45 

109 
125 
121 

109 
126 
121 

109 
125 
121 

86,97 
102,  113 
98,  109 

102 
14 
31 
41,62 

68 
84 
64 

Payment  —  Continued. 
For  town  lots  — 
1903  

Page. 

74 
70 

52 
61 
49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

30 

65,70 

23 
36 
63 
79 
,  90,  102 
106,118 
102,  114 

25 
37,  168 
64 
80 
60 
70 
66 

113 

54 
106 

12 
10 

25 
37,  168 
64 
80 
60 
70 
66 

42 

52 
52 
79 

89 
85 

16 

1904  

Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1896 

Pecan  Creek  colored  school,  reservation 
for: 
1897  

Seminole  Nation— 
1897 

1899  

1899 

1900  

1901 

1901  

1902 

1902  

1003 

1903  

1904 

1904  

Paulding,   identification    of    Mississippi 
Choc  taws  at: 
1902             

Peggs,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1902 

Penalty: 
For   accepting     lands    for   deceased 
allottees— 
1901  

Pauls  Valley: 
Enrollment  of  children  at  — 
1905                                     

For  excessive  land  holding  — 

1898 

Reservation  for  town  site  at  — 
1896  

1899 

Payment: 
For  damage  by  — 
Allotment  of  land— 
1899  

1900  

1901  

1902                                                       59 

1903                                                      69, 

Mining— 

1898 

1904                                             .   .     65, 

For  false  swearing  — 
1898 

1899 

1900 

1899 

1901 

1900 

1902                                

1901 

1903  

1902 

1904              

1903 

Railroads  — 
1903  

1904              

For  leasing  lands  in  violation  of  law  — 
1896 

1904  

For  improvements- 
Creek  Nation— 
1897  

Penitentiary,    reservation    for,    at    Fort 
Gibson: 
1899 

1898 

Pepper,  amount,  allowed  field  parties: 
1901                        

Owned  by  Cherokee  Female  Sem 
inary  — 
1902. 

Pearce,  Thornton  D.,  decision  in  citizen 
ship  case  of: 
1905 

1903     

1904  

Per  capita  distribution  of  funds: 
1894 

Owned   by  Cherokee  Male  Semi 
nary— 
1902  

Perjury,  penalty  for: 

1898                                                 .... 

1903 

1899 

1904  

1900 

Owned  by  Cherokee  Orphan  Asy 
lum  — 
1902  

1901 

1902 

-iqoq 

1903  

1004 

1904.            ...   . 

Permit  tax: 
Abolition  of  — 

On  town  sites— 
1902  

1903  

Creek  Nation— 

1000 

1904  

For  town  lots— 
1896 

1901                     

1902 

1897 

1903 

1898  

1904 

1899  

Perry,  Joe  and  Dillard,  opinion  of  Assist 
ant  Attorney-General,  citizenship  case 
of: 
1905... 

1900 

1901 

1902... 

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91 


Ferryman,  L.  C.: 

Invitation!  to  commission  to  be  pres 
ent  at  Creek  council— 

1895 

Letter  of  Commission  to,  July  25, 1894— 

1894 

Letter  to  Commission- 
May  11,  1895— 

1895. 

June  10, 1895— 

1895 

Ferryman  v.  Hailey,  contest  case  of: 

1903 

Fersonal  expenses  of  commissioners  pro 
vided  for: 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Personnel: 

Of  appraisement  parties — 

1901 

Of  classification  parties— 

1901 

Of  Commission— 

1895 

Changes  in— 

1900 

Addition  to— 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Petroleum,  discovery  of,  at  Red  Fork: 

1901 

Philadelphia,  identification  of  Mississippi 
Choctaws  at: 

1902 

Photo-lithographic  township  plats: 

1899 

Pickles,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 

Pickens  County,  reservation  for  town  sites, 
Chickasaw  Nation: 

1896 

Pierce,  Chas.,  letter  to  Commission,  Au 
gust  12,  1897: 

1897 

Pine  forests,  destruction  of: 

1894 

1895 

Pine  timber: 

Allotment  of—  • 


Page. 


1904 

1905 

Estimation  of — 

1901 

1902 

Location  of — 


64 
142 


97,99 
66,68 
55,57 
71,73 
51,53 
61,63 
57,59 


108 

108 

59 

7 


31 

24 
78 
106 

118 

36 
18 


52 
42,45 


Pine  timber— Continued.  Page. 

Not  estimated— 

1904 46 

Platting  of  town  sites: 

Appropriation  for — 

1900 73 

1901 89 

1902 70,97 

1903 80,113 

1904 76, 109, 122, 124 

Expense  to  be  borne  by  United  States— 

1900 51 

1901 52 

1902 78,84,107 

1903 88, 100, 123 

1904 84,96,119 

Plats: 

Of  allotments,  preparation  of— 

1902 46 

Of  town  sites,  where  filed — 

1897 54 

1898 21 

1899 35,51 

1900 37,47,62,73 

1901 47,78,89 

1902 58,70,74 

1903 68,80,84 

1904 64,76,80 

Polk,  James  K.,  patent  issued  by,  to  Mis 
sissippi  Choctaws: 

1901 219 

Police: 

Lack  of,  in  town — 

1895 71 

To    preserve    peace    at    enrollment 
camp- 


Policy  of  Five  Tribes: 

1896 

Pontotoc  County,  reservation  for  town 
sites,  Chickasaw  Nation: 
1896 

Population: 

Of  Indian  Territory— 
1894... 


158 


118 


17 
160 
179 


1901 

Of  towns— 

1895 70 

1900 37 

Porter,  sale  of  land  for  town-site  purposes: 

1903 35 

1904 29 

1905 64 

Porter,  P.: 

Efforts  in  behalf  of  Creek  agreement— 

1901 9 

Letter  to  Commission — 
December  16, 1896— 

1896 152,161 

December  18, 1896— 

1896 163 

September  27,  1897— 

1897 56 

Letter  of  Commission  to — 
March  27, 1897— 

1897...  47 


92 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Porter,  P.— Continued. 

Letter  of  Commissioner  to — 
June  15,  1897— 

1897 

October  2, 1897— 

1897 

Porum,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

1905 

Possession  of  allotments  guaranteed  al 
lottees: 

1895 

1896 

3897 12,51 

1898 19,29 

1899 33,40,51,60 

1900 60,67 

1901 65,69,76,83 

1902 56,63,88 

1903 66,73,104 

1904 63,69,100 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1900 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Chickasaw  Nation— 

1896 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Creek  Nation— 

1894 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Possession  of  land  in  contest  cases: 

1902 

Posey  v.  Tucker: 

1904 

Postponement  of  negotiations: 

1897 

Potatoes,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 

Poteau,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

1905 

Poteau  strip,  reservation  of: 
1897... 


1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Poultry,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 

Poverty: 

Of  Indians— 


Of   Choctaw  and    Chickasaw   freed- 
men— 
1894 28,32 


Page. 

Power  of  attorney,  selection  of  allotments 
under: 
1903 

Page. 
42  52 

47 
58 

Power: 
Of  Congress- 
Over  Indians  — 
1899 

132 

1901  

151 

64 

To  govern  Indian  tribes— 
1899  

162 

1900 

181 

67 
118 

To  remedy  treaty  wrongs— 
1894 

30  48 

12,  51 
19,29 

Of  municipal  governments— 
1896  

103 

1,61,60 
60,67 

Practice  in  contest  cases: 
1902 

160 

>,  76,  83 

1903 

159 

,  63,  88 

1904 

195 

73,  104 
69,100 

Rules  of— 
1903 

163 

1904  

201 

36 
102 
118 

Preparation: 
Of  final  rolls— 
1905  

9 

114 

Of  patents— 
1905 

57 

120 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1905 

58 

91 
107 
103 

Choctaw     and     Chickasaw     na 
tions— 
1905  

57 

8 

Creek  Nation— 
1905  

60 

46 
47 

Seminole  Nation— 
1905 

60 

73 
83 
79 

Presbyterian  schools  at  Tahlequah,  reser 
vation  for: 
1899  . 

54 

1902.            

103 

160 

1903  

H9 

1904  

115 

189 
83 

President: 
Authorized  to  appoint  Commissioners 
to  the  Fire  Civilized  Tribes— 
1897 

97 

106 

1899 

66 

1900.                      .  .  . 

55 

1901                    ... 

71 

64 

1902  

51 

1903  

61 

11 

1904  

57 

27 
39 
66 

82 

To  appoint  officer— 
For    distribution     of     Cherokee 
funds— 
1894 

11 

62 

72 
68 

For  distribution  of  Choctaw  and 
Chickasaw  funds  — 
1894*  

10 

105 

For  distribution  of  Creek  funds— 
1894  

9 

g 

For    distribution    of     Seminole 
funds— 
1894 

13 

28,32 

To  appoint  three  members  of  — 
Cherokee  citizenship  committee  — 
1894... 

11 

THE   FIV 

President—  Continued. 
To  appoint  three  members  to  — 
Creek  citizenship  committee— 
1894 

E   CIVI 

Page. 

9 

56 
53 
80 
90 
86 

16 
34 
43 
70 

86 
67 
77 
73 

72 

105 
8,91,100 
8 
64,68 
57 
73,91 
54,71 
64,81 
60,77 

43 

60 

15,17 
75 

16,  17,  18 

41 
32 

7 

64,69 
100 
116 
112 

72 

101 
12,51 
28,37 
50,  60,  82 
36,  46,  66 
70,  82,  97 
,  100,  108 
,  116,  124 
,  105,  120 

LIZED   TKIBES. 

Prisoners—  Continued  . 
To  remain  within  the  Cherokee  Na 
tion— 
1899  

93 

Page. 
57 

26 
38 
65 
81 
61 
71 
67 

9 

58 
44 
109 
125 
121 

65 
53 

88 
90,104 
86,100 

36 

17 

164 

198 

15 
15 

8 
36 
30 
34 

39 
32 
39 

45 
37 

46 
38 

49 
41 
34 

29 
39 
31 
50 

32 
41 

To  approve  acts  of  — 
Creek  council— 
1897 

Proclamation: 
Of  agreements— 

1898 

1901 

1899 

1902 

1900 

1903 

1901 

1904 

1902 

Choctaw  and   Chickasaw   tribal 
council— 

1897 

1903.     .                       ... 

1904.   .                  

Of  Atoka  agreements  — 
1899  .     . 

1898                         

1899              

Of  Cherokee  agreement— 
1889  

1900  

1901 

1900 

1902 

1902 

1903 

1903 

1904 

1904 

Seminole  council— 
1897                                       .     . 

Of  Creek  agreement— 

1899 

Tribal  council— 
1896                         

1900 

1902 

1897                 8 

1903            

1898                     

1904 

1899            .                        

Proctor,  appointment  at,  for  enrollment 
of  Creeks: 
1902                   

1900                   

1901  

1902  

Production  of  cotton: 
1894                 

1903  

1904  

Proof: 
Of  service  of  notice  of  contest  and 
summons  — 
1903             

To  approve  Cherokee  tribal  laws— 
1900 

President  Cleveland,  letter  concerning 
work  of  Commission: 
1895  

1904            

Of  birth,  form  of  — 
1901            

Prevalence  of  crime: 
1894 

Of  death,  form  of  — 
1901 

1895 

Preparation  of  citizenship  rolls: 
1904                                      .                  11 

Progress  of  allotment: 
1901            

Preparation  of  patents: 
Cherokee  Nation  — 
1904  

1903                  .  .  . 

1904             

1905          

Creek  Nation— 
1904  ..  . 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1903  

Printing  of  annual  report: 
1894 

1904  

1905 

Prisoners: 
Acceptance  of  patents  for— 
1901 

Choctaw  Nation— 
1904 

1905 

1902 

Chickasaw  Nation 

1903 

1904 

1904 

1905                               .     . 

Release  of  Seminole,  desired— 
1897 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1903 

Selection  of  allotments  for  — 
1896 

1904             

1905      

1897                                       ..  . 

Creek  Nation  — 
1900  

1898  

1899  89, 

1902.            

1900  

1904  

1901                                            46  65 

1905 

1902                                         63  73  87 

Seminole  Nation— 
1901 

1903                            42  52  73  83  103 

1904...                               ..  69.79.9S 

1902... 

94 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Progress  of  allotment  —  Continued. 
Seininole  Nation  — 
1904  

Page. 

30 
52 

i-           10 
j          12 
8 
10 
10 
11 
8 

22 
28 
18 

Kj         13 
14,16 
17 
,            18 

12 

i            16 
16 

21 

10 
11,13 
11 

28 
35 

28 

18 
30 
43,44 

89 

7 

7 
83 

89 
3 

100 
116 
112 

159 
18 

14 
21,31 
34,41 

61,68 
77,84 
57.65 

Prohibition—  Continued. 
Of  intoxicants  — 
1903...  . 

Page. 

67,75 
63,71 

148 
79 

11 
132 
49 
35 

114,117 

121 
21 

10 
100 
60,66 

25 

45 
45 

72 
82 
78 

36 
45 

152 
55 
>9.  63,  68 

63 

13 

77 

11 

132 

67 
114 

10 
97,99 
10 
99 
10 

1905 

1904 

Progress  of  enrollment: 
1899        

Property,  claims  for  destruction  of— 
1896 

1900        .     . 

Proposals   of    Commission    rejected    by 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations: 
1895 

1901  

1902  

1903 

Proposed  agreement: 
With  Cherokees— 
1894 

1904 

1905            .             

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1901  

1896  

1899  

1902  

1900  

Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1902 

With  Chickasaws— 
18% 

Refusal     of     Commissioners     to 
sign— 
18%. 

1903             .  . 

1904                      .     . 

1905  

1897  

Choctaw  Nation  — 
1902  

With  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws— 
1894  

1904  

1896  

Of  Choctaw  freedmen  — 
1905 

1901 

Ratification  of— 
1897 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1901 

With  Creeks- 
March  8,  1900— 
1900  

1908  

1904  

1901  

Creek  Nation— 
1901  

1902  

1903  

1903 

1904 

Draft  of— 

1898 

Mississippi  Choctaws  — 
1904 

1899 

Seininole  Nation  — 
1901..   .     . 

Objection  to  — 
1896  

Progress  of  survey  and  appraisement: 
1902  

Ratification  of— 
1897  

Progress  of  work: 
1895  

Rejection  of— 

1903 

1897  « 

Submission  to  Creek  National  Coun 
cil— 
1897 

Report  of  — 
1894 

18%. 

With  Seminoles— 
1894  

October  11,  1897— 

1897 

October  3,  1898— 
1898  

1897 

Proposition: 
To  Cherokees— 
1894 

Prohibition: 
At  Sulphur  Springs  Reservation— 
1902 

1896 

1903 

To  Chickasaws  — 
1895 

1904 

Desired  by  Indians  — 
1896  

1896 

Failure  to  act  upon  — 
1894  ..     . 

Necessity  for  — 
1894  

To  Choctaws— 
1896  

Of  intoxicants— 
1897  

Failure  to  act  on  — 
1894 

1898 

1899 

To  Choctaw  Nation  to  Commission  — 
18%        .     .            

1900 

1901  

To  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws— 
1894... 

1902... 

THE   FIVE 

Proposition  —  Continued. 
Of  Creek  Commission— 
1896 

CIVI 

Page. 

161 

8 
45,  155 

146 

13 

72 

73 
89 
58 

37 

42 

25 
23 

105 
16 
34 
44 
71 
87,91 
67,72 
77,82 
73,78 

13 
76 

61,68 

164 
198 

63 
18 

13 
30 
41 
68 
84 
64 
74 
70 

66 
42 

41 

52 
18 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Public  buildings—  Continued. 
Reservation  for  — 
1899 

95 

Page. 
32  49 

To  Creeks— 
1894 

1900  

39  59 

1901 

75 

1896  1 

1902 

56  92  107 

Explanation  of— 
1896  

1903 

66  108  123 

1904  

62  104  119 

To  Seminoles  — 

1894 

Chickasaw  Nation— 
1896  

101  119 

1897  

Choctaw     and     Chickasaw 
tions— 
1897 

na 
il 

Of  Seminoles  concerning  purchase  of 
additional  land— 
1897 

1904 

68 

1899 

Creek  Nation— 
1900 

48 

1901 

Protection: 
Of  full  bloods  in  allotment— 
1905  

1301 

49 

1902  

75 

1903  

85 

Of  full-blood  allottees,  resolution  of 
Commission  concerning— 
1904 

1904  

81 

At  Wewoka— 
1899 

89 

Pryor  Creek,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1900 

1901 

57 

1902 

110 

1901  

1903 

128 

Publication  of  tribal  laws: 
1896 

1904. 

129 

Public  domain: 
Occupancy  by  freedmen  — 
1894  

29 

1897 

1898 

1899 

Occupancy  of,  by  intruders— 
1899  

J7 

1900 

1901  

In  contest  cases— 
1903  

159 

1902 

1903 

Public  grounds,  payment  for: 
1898  

22 

1904 

Publication  of  notice: 
Allotment  of  land— 

1899 

35 

1900 

62 

1901  

78 

1902  

58 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations'  citi 
zenship  cases  — 
1901 

1903. 

68 

1904     

64 

Public  highways,  establishment  of: 
1902  

86  105 

Contest  cases  — 

1903  

....  102,121 

1904  

....     98,  117 

Municipal  elections— 
1899  

Public  roads,  necessity  for: 
1896 

159 

1899 

29 

Opening  of  Creek  land  office— 
1899. 

Purcell,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1896 

118 

Public  auction,  town  lots  to  be  sold  at: 
1897  

Purchase  of  camp  outfit: 
1899 

12 

1898 

Purchase  of  land: 
By  United  States— 

1899 

1900  

1901  

1X00 

1902  

1000 

1903  

1001 

1904  

Public  buildings: 
Disposition  of  — 
1899  

1903  

61 

1904  

57 

From  Creek  Nation— 
1897 

79 

1900  

Cherokee  Nation— 
1900  

1899 

89 

1901 

56 

Reservation  for  — 
1897  

1902 

81 

1903  .  . 

92 

1898  

1904... 

88 

96 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Purchase  of  land—  Continued. 
From  Creek  Nation  — 
By  Seminoles  — 

Page. 

Qualification  of  voters  —  Continued. 
Municipal  elections  — 
1899 

Page. 

58 

1897  

56 

Quinton,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 

From  Indian  impossible— 
1894 

14 

purposes,  at: 
1904 

29 

Purchase  of  town  lots  Choctaw  and  Chick- 

1905 

64 

asaw  nations: 
1897 

13 

Railroads: 
Act  February  28  1902  — 

1898        ...                      

30 

1903. 

10 

1899       

41 

Adjustment  of  conditions  — 

1900  

68 

18%  

99 

1901 

84 

Construction  of  — 

1902 

64 

1902 

46 

1903 

74 

1904 

27 

1904 

70 

Effect  of  construction  — 

Purnell  reservation  for  town  site  at' 

1894 

17 

1903 

34 

Effect  of  on  condition  of  Territory  — 

Purpose  of  Government  explained  to  chief 

1895                        

69 

executives  of  the  Five  Tribes: 
1894  

7 

In  Seminole  Nation,  consent  of  na 
tional  council  to  be  obtained  — 

Quabner  v.  Greenleaf,  contest  case  of: 

1897  '  

72 

1903  

144 

Land  grants  to  — 

Quarantine,  delay  in  investigation  of  Mis 

1894  

14 

sissippi  Choctaw  claims  caused  by: 
1897 

93 

Obligations  of,  not  to  be  impaired  by 
agreement  — 

Qualifications  for  citizenship: 

1896  

102 

1899 

7  10 

Reservation  for  — 

1902 

10 

1899 

46  61 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1900 

40 

1899 

122  132 

1902 

91 

1901             

141  151 

1903 

101 

Creek  Nation  — 

1904                  

97 

1899  

157 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1901  

176 

1902  

103 

Qualifications  of  jurors: 

1903  

119 

1899  i 

3,  57,  68 

1904  

116 

1900                                                              I 

>3  57  73 

Creek  Nation  — 

1902 

53 

1900 

49 

Qualifications  of  voters' 

1901 

50 

1896 

155 

1902 

76 

1897 

100 

1903 

86 

1898 

20  26 

1904 

82 

1899                                                      34  38  ( 

53  65  68 

Rights  of  in  Cherokee  Nation  — 

1900 

61 

1900                      

42 

1901  . 

77  81 

Railroad  fare  form  of  voucher  for: 

1902  

57 

1901              

107 

1903  

67 

Railroad  grants: 

1904  

63 

1897  

22 

Ratification- 
Cherokee  agreement 

Railroad  map  of  Indian  Territory: 
1902 

167 

1900  

44 

Railroad  rates  to  be  fixed  by  Congress: 

1902 

109 

1897                               

13 

1903 

125 

1898                                  

30 

1904 

121 

1899                     

40 

Of  agreements  — 

1900              

67 

1898.     ... 

26 

1901            

83 

1899 

38 

1902 

64 

1900 

65 

1903 

74 

1901 

81 

1904                                                        

70 

1903 

71 

Railroad  right  of  way 

1904 

67 

Acquirement  of  — 

Choctaw  and    Chickasaw  agree 

1903                

93 

ment  — 

1904                  

44,89 

1901  

65  70 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 

1902 

61  100 

1897 

13 

1903 

116 

1898                                             

29 

1904... 

112 

1899... 

40 

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97 


Railroad  right  of  way— Continued.  Page. 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1900 67 

1901 83 

1902 64 

1903 74 

1904 70 

Ramona: 

Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at — 

1905 64 

Reservation  for — 

1897 52 

1902 91 

1903 107 

1904 103 

Rate  of  transportation  on  freight: 

1903 94 

1904 90 

Rations: 

For  horses,  field  parties— 

1901 106 

For  mules,  field  parties — 

1901 106 

Vouchers  for — 

1901 105 

Ratification  of  agreement: 

1 894 9 

189C 106 

1897 79, 100 

1898 '  4 

1899 68, 88 

1900 57 

1 901 55, 73 

1902 10, 53, 82 

1903 9,63,92 

1904 59, 88 

Atoka— 

1898 26 

1899 9,38 

1900 65 

1901 81 

1902 -. 61 

1903 71 

1904 67 

Act  of  Choctaw  council— 

1895 88 

Election  for — 

1898 26 

1899 38 

1900 w  65 

1901 81 

1902 61 

1903 71 

1904 67 

Of  February  7,  1901— 

1901 60, 66 

Necessity  for — 

1895 62 

Protest  of  Chickasaw  council  against — 

1896 119 

With  Cherokees— 

1894 11 

1896 129, 134 

1899 10,58 

1900 44 

1901 9 

1902 109 

15013 


Ratification  of  agreement— Continued.  Page. 

With  Cherokees— 

1903 125 

1904 121 

With  Chickasaws— 

1896 114,121 

1897 25 

With  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws— 

1897 17,21 

1898 4,6,36 

1901 65,70 

1902 68, 88, 100 

1903 104,116 

1904 74,100,112 

With  Choctaw  Nation— 

1896 98 

With  Creeks— 

1894 9 

1897 55 

1899 9,10,65 

1900 53 

1901 9,53 

1902 88 

1903 90,100,104 

1904 «6,96,100 

With  Seminoles— 

1894 13 

1897 72 

1900 54 

1901 59 

1902 83 

1903 99 

1904 89 

Provision  for — 

1897 98 

1899 66 

1900 55 

1901 71 

1902 53 

1903 62 

1904 58 

Ravia,  reservation  town  site  at: 

1901 39 

1903 35 

Raymond,  C.  W.,  opinion  of,   in  injunc 
tion  case,  Cherokee  freedmen: 

1904 142 

Real  estate: 

Jurisdiction  of  United   States    court 
over— 

1897 16, 54 

1898 '.  33 

1899 43, 63 

1900 70 

1901 86 

1902 66 

1903 76 

1904 72 

In  Seminole  Nation — 

1897 78 

1899 88 

1901 65 

1902 82 

1903 92 

1904 88 

Incumbrance  prohibited — 

1897...  55 


98 


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Recognition  of  agents  and  attorneys: 

Page. 

1901  

103 

1902  

115 

1903  

167 

1904  

197 

Recommendation  for  legislation: 

1903  

58 

Recording  of  documents,  provision  for: 

1898  

20 

1899  

34 

1900  

61 

1901  

77 

1902  

67 

1903  

67 

1904  

63 

Recording  of  leases: 

1896  

102 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 

1897  

12 

1898  

29 

1899  

40 

1900  

67 

1901  

83 

1902  

63 

1903  

73 

1904  

69 

Seminole  Nation— 

1897  

77 

1901  

54 

1902  

81 

1903  

91 

1904  

87 

Recording  of  patents: 

1897  

53 

1899  

47 

1901  

64,69 

1905  

57,60 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1900  *  

39,  43 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1897  

13 

1898  

29 

1899  

40 

1900  

67 

1901  

83 

1902  

63,100 

1903  

73,116 

1904  

69,  112 

Creek  Nation— 

1899  

64 

1900  

48 

1901  

50 

1902  

76 

1903  

39,86 

1901  

82 

Provisions  for  — 

1896  

102 

Seminole  Nation  — 

1903  

126 

1904  

122 

Red  Fork: 

Discovery  of  oil  at  — 

1901  

31 

Establishment  of  town  site  at— 

1S99  

61 

Red  Fork  —  Continued. 

Reservation  for  town  site  at  — 

1900  ............................... 

1901  ............................... 

1903  ............................... 

Refusal: 

Of  Chickasaw  Commissioners  to  sign 
proposed  agreement  — 
1896  ............................... 

Of  Creeks  to  negotiate  with  Commis 
sion— 
1894  ............................... 

Of  Keetoowah  Society  to  enroll— 

1902  ............................... 

Of  Seminoles  to  negotiate  with  Com 

mission— 

1894  ............................... 

Of  tribes  to  negotiate  with  Commis 

sion  — 

1895  ........................... 

Regulations: 

Governing  allotment  of  land  iu  — 
Cherokee  Nation  — 

1903  ........................... 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1903  ........................... 

Governing  classification  and  appraise 
ment  of  land— 

1901  ............................... 

Governing  classification  of  land  in  — 

Creek  and  Cherokee  nations— 
1901  ........................... 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1899  ........................... 

1901  ......................... 

Governing  depositions  of  Mississippi 
Choctaw  cases— 

1902  ............................... 

Governing  enrollment  of  citizens  — 

1900  .............................. 

Governing  field  parties  — 

1901  ............................... 

Governing  grazing  leases  — 

1899  ............................ 

Governing  leasing  of  land— 

1900  ............................... 

Governing  leasing  of  mineral  lands— 

1898..".  ............................ 

1899  ............................ 

1900  .............................. 

lipl  ........................ 

1902  ............................ 

1903  .............................. 

1904  ............................ 

Governing     practice     in     Choctaw, 

Chickasaw,  and  Cherokee  contests— 

1903  .............................. 

1904  ............................... 

Governing  recognition  of  agents  and 

attorneys  — 

1901  ............................... 

1902  ............................... 

1903  ............................... 

1904  ............................ 

Governing  sale  of  Delaware  improve 

ments  — 
1903  ......................... 


Page. 

46 
39 
34 


121 

8 
29 

13 
65 

41 
51 

108 

34 

24 
35 

H7 
14 

105 
26 
30 


62 


103 


197 


37 


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Regulations—  Continued.                                 Page. 
Governing  segregatio'n  for  town-site 
purposes— 
1904                                                                 27 

Removal  of  intruders—  Continued. 
Cherokee  Nation  — 
1895 

70 
102 
118 
114 

10 

10 
12 
29 
40 
67 
83 
63,  91 
73,106 
69,  103 

8 
51,60 
60 
88 
104 
100 

118 
30 
15 

0,  93,  96 
II1,  112 

126 
19,121 

13 
76 

96 
112 

88 
123 
30 
115 
106 

98 
67 
56 
72 
52 
62 
58 

7 

1902 

Governing  selection  and  leasing  of 
allotments  — 

1899                                                                  18  81 

1903. 

1901  

Chickasaw  Nation— 
1894 

1901                                                                    96 

Amendment  to  — 
1899                                                             84 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 

189  1 

1901  .              .            98,99 

1897 

Rehearing  in  contest  cases: 
1899  86 

1H98  

1  899 

1901                                                                          101 

]()00 

1902                                                                  11  1  1('»1 

1901 

1903                                                           158,159  165 

1909 

1904  ,     199 

i  yo;5 

Reinstatement  of  contests: 
1903  165 

1904  

Creek  Nation  — 
18'  14 

1904                                                                          199 

Rejection  of  agreement  by  chief  of  Creek 
Nation: 
1898                                                                             4 

1897 

1899 

1  W 

Religious  societies,  reservations  for: 
1899  65 

1903  

1904 

Relinquishment  of  allotment,  in  contest 
case: 
1902  157,  161 

Expense  of— 
1  896  

Requested  by  Cherokees  — 
1897 

Removal  : 
Of  Cherokees  to  Indian.  Territory— 
1  899  114 

Seniinole  Nation  — 
1894 

1901.                                                              135 

Removal  of  Mississippi  Choc  aws: 
To  Indian  Territory— 
1899                                                         f- 

Chicknsaws  to  Indian  Territory  — 
1899  109 

1901  128 

1901                                             20  62  67 

Of  Chickasaw  land  office  from  Tisho- 
mingo  to  Ardmore— 
1905  38 

1903  '.  

1904  

Essential  to  allotment  — 
1898 

Creeks  to  Indian  Territory— 
1899  20 

1899 

Of  freedmen  fromChickasaw  Nation  — 
1894.                                                             36  37 

Resolution  of  Choctaw  council  con 
cerning  — 
1899 

1898                                                                   6 

Removal  of  headquarters: 
From  Fort  Smith  to  Muscogee— 
1897  7 

1901  ... 

Removal  of  records  to  Fort  Smith: 
1895 

From  Muscogee  to  South  McAlester— 
1894  17 

Removal  of  restrictions: 
1904 

To  Fort  Smith— 
1896  148 

Remy,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1902 

To  Muscogee— 
1894..                                                                7 

Rentie,  Job  v.,  contest  case  of: 
1903 

Removal  of  improvements: 
1899  60 

Repairs  of  Held  equipment: 
1901 

Removal  of  intruders: 

1895                                                                           67 

Repeal  of  act  of: 
March   3,   1893,   authorizing  employ 
ment  of  stenographer  and  survey 
or  — 
1897 

1896                                                           102  118  120 

1898.                                                                     16  18 

1899.                         31  33  51  166 

1900  36  58  60 

1899 

1901  65,69,  74  76 

1900 

1902  54,  56 

1901 

1903                                                                      64  66 

1902 

1904                                                                      60  69 

1903 

Appropriation  for  — 
1902  84 

1904  

April    21,  1904,   as  to   sale  of   Creek 
lands  — 
1905... 

1903  100 

1904...                                                   .     96,124 

100 


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Report: 

Of  classification  of  land  in  Choctaw 
Nation,  form  of  — 

Page. 

90 

128 

86 
89 

169 

77 

10 

73 

160 
179 

7 

132 
151 

101 
11 
27 
39 
66 
82 
62,92 
72,  108 
68,  104 

52 

54 
103 
119 
115 

11 
92 
108 
68,  104 

55 
41 
103 
119 
115 

119 
11 

27 
39 

66 

82 

Reservation—  Continued. 
For  Bloomfield  Academy  — 
1909 

Page. 

62,  92 

72,108 

1903          

1904  

68,  101 
52 

54 
103 
119 
115 

119 
11 

27 
39 
66 
82 
62,  92 
72,  108 

Of  Commission- 
September  20,  1897— 
1897                                         

For  Mrs.  H.  F.  Buckner— 
1897                                           

For  capitol  building- 
Cherokee  Nation  — 
1899.  

October  11,  1897— 
1897 

December  31,  1903,  segregation  of 
Delaware  lands— 

1902 

1903 

1904  

As  to  identification  of  Mississippi 
Choctaws  — 
1899            

Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1896               

1897 

January  28,  1898,  as  to  rights  of 
Mississippi  Choctaws— 
1898                                    

1898        

1899          

1900 

1899                                  

1901 

Of  Committee  on  Indian  Affairs  con 
cerning  Indian  Territory  — 
1899                   

1902 

1903                                      

1904 

68,  104 

92 
108 
104 

•101 
11 
27 
39 
66 
82 
62 
72 
68 

52 
61,  63 

48,  61 

103 
119 
115 

119 

92 
108 
104 

49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

18 
32 
59 
75 
56 
66 
62 

1901 

Choctaw  Nation— 
1902      

Printing  of  annual  — 
1894  

Requirements  for  citizenship  in  Cherokee 
Nation  — 
1899  

1904 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1901  

Reservation: 
For  Armstrong  Academy  — 
1896  

1898 

1899 

1897  '.  

1898  

1899  

1900  

1901 

Creek  Nation  — 

1902  

1903  

1904                                             

For  cemeteries— 
1899  

For  Bacon  e  University  — 

For  Baptist  mission  school  — 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1902  

1903  

1904  

1904 

Chickasaw  Nation— 
1896 

For  R.  S.  Bell— 
1897 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1902  

1903  

1904  

For  blind,  deaf,  and  dumb  asylum  at 
Fort  Gibson  — 

Creek  Nation  — 
1900          .  .            

1901  

1902  

1903  

iqnq 

1904  

1904                                         

For  charitable  institutions— 
1898                 

For  Bloomfield  Academy  — 
1896 

1899        

1897 

1900  

1898 

1901  

1899 

1902                                             -   -   - 

1900 

1903                                             

1901... 

1904... 

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•101 


Reservation—  Continued  . 
For  Cherokee  advocate— 
1899 

I  'ago. 

Reservation—  Continued  ',  ^  ;  :  ' 
Seminole  Nation— 
1901  

55 
81 
92 

87 

11 
27 
39 
66 
82 
62,92 
72,  108 
68,104 

103 
119 
115 

52 
61 
49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

52 
61 

49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

52 
61 
49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

77 
88 
55 
81- 
91 
87 

54 
103 
119 
115 

54 
103 
119 
115 

77 
88 
55 

1902 

103 

1902                                .             

1903 

119 

1903.             .     .            

1904 

115 

1904.                  

For  Cherokee  Female  Seminary— 
1902 

103 

For  Collins  Institute— 
1897 

1903 

119 

1898  

1904                                         

115 

1899  

For  Cherokee  Insane  Asylum  — 
1902 

103 

1900                                                 

1901                                    

1903 

119 

1902.                        

1904 

115 

1903  

For  Cherokee  Male  Seminary— 
1902 

103 

1904  

For  colored    high   school,  Cherokee 
Nation— 
1902  

1903                                         

119 

1904                                  

115 

For  Cherokee  Orphan  Asylum  — 
1899 

54 

1903                             

1904          .              

1  902                     

103 

For  colored    Orphans    Home,  Creek 
Nation  — 
1897 

1903              

119 

1Q04 

115 

For  Chickasaw  Orphan  Home— 
1896 

119 

1899 

1900 

At  Vinita— 
1900 

42 

1901 

1902 

For  churches— 

1897 

52  54 

1903                             

1904                                    

1899  32, 

1900 

48,  53,  63,  83 
48  59 

For  Coweta  boarding  school  — 
1897  

1901 

49  75 

1899."  

1909 

56  76  92 

1900  

1903 

66  86  107 

1901  

1904 

62  82  104 

1902  

Cherokee  Nation— 

19Q9 

103 

1903 

1904                                                   .   . 

1903 

119 

For  Creek  Orphan  Home  — 
1897 

1904 

n^ 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1897                                                          11 

1899                                             

1900                 .          

1898 

27 

1901                 

1899 

29 

1902       

1900 

66 

1903 

1901 

89 

1904 

1902 

62 

For  district  schools— 
1897 

1903 

72 

1904 

68 

1899 

Creek  Nation— 

19Q9 

85 

1901                         .                     

1902                                    

1903 

101 

1903                             

1904 

97 

1904            

Disposition  of— 
1897  

14 

For  D  wight  mission  school,  Cherokee 
Nation  — 
1899                                         

1898 

32 

1899 

42 

1009 

1900 

69                      1903                 .   

1901 

85 

1904  

1902 

65 

For    Elm    Springs    mission    school, 
Cherokee  Nation— 
1899 

1903 

75 

1904 

71 

In  town  sites  — 
1902 

107 

1902                                           

1903                .              

1903 

123 

1904       

1904 

119 

For  Emahaka  Academy— 

1897 

Seminole  Nation  — 
1897 

78 

1899                                         

1899... 

88 

1901... 

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Ro^ervitlon-  -Contirued. 
For  Emahaka  Academy  — 
1902 

Page. 
81 

Reservation—  Continued. 
For  jails- 
Disposition  of 

Page. 

1903 

91 

1903 

75 

1904 

87 

1904 

71 

For  Euchee  Boarding  School  — 
1897                                  

52 

For  Jones  Academy— 
1896  

101 

1899 

61 

1897 

11 

1900 

49 

1898 

27 

1901 

50 

1899... 

39 

1902 

77 

1900  

66 

1903 

87 

1901  

82 

1904                                               

83 

1902  

62  92 

For  Fufaula  High  School 

1903 

79  108 

1897 

52 

1904. 

68  104 

1899  

Gl 

For  Kendall  College— 

1900 

49 

1897..     . 

52 

1901  

50 

For  Lebanon  Orphan  Home— 

1902 

76 

1897  

11 

1903 

86 

1898  

27 

1904 

8i> 

1899 

39 

1900 

66 

1896 

119 

1901... 

82 

1897 

11 

1902  

62  92 

1898 

27 

1903  

72  108 

1899 

39 

1904  

68,  104 

1900  

66 

For  Lutheran  Mission  — 

1901 

8'> 

1899  

54 

1902 

62  92 

1902  

103 

1903 

72  108 

1903  

119 

1904 

68  104 

1904  

115 

For  Harrell  Institute— 
1897 

52 

For  Mekusuky  Academy  — 
1897  

77 

1899  

88 

1899 

55 

1901  

55 

For  jail^ 

1902 

81 

1899 

54 

1903  

91 

1900 

39 

1904  

88 

1902  

107 

For  missionaries  — 

1903 

123 

1897  

11 

1904 

119 

1899  

65 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1902 

103 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1897  

11 

1903 

119 

1898  

27 

1904 

115 

1899  

39 

1900  

66 

1897 

11 

1901  

82 

1898 

27 

1902  

62 

1899 

39 

1903  

72 

1900 

66 

1904  

68 

1901  

82 

For  Mississippi    Choctaws  is  Missis 

1902  

62 

sippi— 

1903 

79 

1898  

10 

1904 

fiS 

1899  

74 

Creek  Nation— 
1900 

48 

For  Moravian  Mission  — 
1899  

54 

1901 

48 

For  J.  S.  Murrow— 

1902 

75 

1902  

92 

1903 

85 

1903  

107 

1904 

01 

1904  

104 

Disposition  of— 
1897  

14 

For  Murrow  Orphan  Home— 
1897 

11 

1898  

31 

1898 

27 

1899  

42 

1899  

39 

1900  

69 

1900 

66 

1901  

85 

1901 

82 

1902... 

65 

1902... 

62 

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Reservation— Continued. 

For  Murrow  Orphan  Home — 


1904 

For  Nazareth  Institute— 

1897 

For  New  Hope  Seminary — 

1896 

For  Newyaka  Boarding  School — 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

For  Park  Hill  Mission  School— 

1899 

1902 

1903 

1904 

For  parks — 

1899... 


Page. 


7'2 


52 
101 

49 
50 

77 
87 


54 
103 
119 
115 

62 


For  parsonage — 

1897 14, 54 

1898 18, 32 

1899 82, 42, 53, 61, 63 

1900 48, 59, 69 

1901 49, 75, 86 

1902 56, 65, 76 

1903 66,86 

1904 62, 82 

For  parsonages  in  town  sites— 

1902 

1903 

1904... 


107 
123 
119 


For  Pecan  Creek    colored   boarding 
school— 

1897 52 

1899 61 

1900 49 

1901 50 

1902 77 

1903 87 

1904 83 

For  Presbyterian   school,   at   Tahle- 
quah— 

1899 54 

1902 103 

1903 119 

1904 115 

For  public  buildings— 

1896 101,119 

1897 11 

1898 18,27 

1899 32,39,49,89 

1900 39,48,59,66 

1901 57,75,82 

1902 56,62,75,92,107 

1903 66, 72, 85, 108, 123, 128 

1904 62, 68, 81, 104, 119, 128 

For  railroads — 

1897 52 

1899 49,61 

1900 40 

1902 85, 91 

1903 101, 107 

1904 97,103 


Reservation — Continued. 
For  railroads — 

Cherokee  Nation — 

1902 

1903 

190-1 , 

Creek  N;iti»n — 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

For  religious  societies — 

1899 , 

For  Mrs.  E.  A.  W.  Robertson— 

1897 

For  Rock  Academy — 
1897... 


1899. 
1900. 
1901. 


Page. 


103 
119 
115 


1902 62,92 

1903 72, 108 

1904 68, 104 

For  R.  S.  Shermerhorn— 

1897 11 

1898 27 

1899 39 

1900 66 

1901 82 

1902 62, 92 

1903 72, 108 

1904 68, 101 

For  schools— 

1897 52 

1898 18 

1899 32,  49, 55 

1900 59 

1901 75 

1902 56 

1903 66 

1904 62 

Chickasaw  Nation — 

1896 101, 119 

Cherokee  Nation — 

1902 103 

1903 119 

1904 115 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1897 11 

1898 27 

1899 39 

1900 66 

1901 82 

1902 62,  92 

1903 72,108 

1904 T. 68, 104 

For    schools    and    churches,    Creek 
Nation— 

1899 61, 63 

1904 32 

For  Skiatook  Mission,  Cherokee  Na 
tion— 

1899 54 

1902 103 

1903 119 

1904...  116 


104 


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Reservation—  Continued. 
For  Spencer  Academy— 
1896                    

Page. 
101 

Reservation—  Continued. 
For  town  site  at— 
Checotah  — 

Page. 

For    Tallahassee   colored 

boarding 

1899 

Gl 

1900 

46 

1897 

52 

Chickasha  — 

1899                                   * 

61 

1896  . 

118 

1900 

49 

Clarksville— 

1901 

50 

1900 

48 

1902 

77 

1901 

49 

1903 

87 

1903 

86 

1904 

83 

1904 

82 

For  town  cemeteries— 
1899 

61 

Coalgate  — 
1903..            

34 

*         1900 

40 

Colbert 

1896 

118 

1894 

8 

Comancho  — 

1896 

102 

1896 

118 

1897 

52 

Coweta  — 

1899 

49,53,63 

1900 

48 

1900 

37,  40 

1901  

49 

1901 

39,90 

1902 

76 

1902 

45,71,86 

1903 

86 

1903 

34,81,102 

1904 

82 

1904 

77,  97 

Crowder  City  — 

For  town  site  — 

1903 

34 

Creek  Nation  — 
1894 

8 

Daugherty  — 
1896  

118 

1899                      

61 

Davis— 

1900  

49 

1896  

118 

1901 

50 

Duncan 

1902 

76 

1896 

118 

1903 

86 

1904  

82 

1899 

61 

For  town  site  at— 
Ada— 

Emmett  — 
1896 

118 

1901  

39 

46 

1903 

35 

Alabama  — 

Fort  Gibson  — 
1899 

54 

1901 

39 

1903  

34 

Fort  Towson  — 

1QAO 

34 

Ardmore— 
1896  

102,118 

Francis  — 
1901 

39 

Aylesworth— 

1903 

35 

1903 

35 

Beggs— 

Garvin— 
1903             

34 

1901          

39 

1903 

34 

Gibson  Station— 

1899 

61 

34 

1900  

46 

1901 

39  49 

Bernyn  — 

leqfi 

118 

1902  

76 

1903 

34,  86 

1Q01 

39 

1904  

82 

1903 

34 

Gilbert— 

1903                        

34 

1903 

34 

Gray 

Boswell^ 

1901 

39 

1903  

34 

1903 

35 

Bristow— 
1899  

61 

Haileyville  — 

1900 

46 

Bryant  Station— 

IQftl 

39 

Hall— 
1901  

39 

35 

1903  

34 

Center— 
1896... 

118 

Harrington  — 
1903  

34 

THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TKIBES. 


105 


Reservation  —  Continued  . 
For  town  site  at  — 
Helen— 
1901 

Page. 
39 

Reservation  —  Contin  ued  . 
For  town  site  at  — 
Paola— 
1896.           

1903 

35 

Pauls  Valley  — 

Henryetta  — 

1896  

1901 

39 

Purcell— 

1903 

34 

1896  

Holdenville— 
1899 

61 

Purnell— 
1903 

1900 

46 

Ravia— 

1901 

1903 

34 

1903                           

Hunter  — 
1903 

34 

Red  Fork— 
1899  

Inola  — 

1900  

1901 

39 

1901 

1903 

34 

1903 

Kellyville— 
1901 

39 

Roscdale  — 
1901 

1903 

34 

1903 

Kiowa  — 
1903 

34 

Roff— 
1901.                        

Lee— 

1903.            

1899  

61 

ROSS  — 

1900  

46 

1901  

Leliaetta  — 

1903  

1901  

39 

Rush  Springs  — 

1903 

34 

1896 

Madill— 
1901 

39 

Russett— 
1903 

1903 

35 

Marietta  — 

1896 

1896 

118 

Sapulpa  — 

Marlow  — 

1899 

1896 

118 

1900 

Mazie  — 
1901  

39 

Scull  in— 
1901  

1903  

34 

1903  

Mead— 
1903  

35 

Sopcr— 
1903  

Minco— 
1896 

118 

South  McAlester— 
1896 

Mounds  — 
1900. 

48 

Stonewall  — 
1896 

1901. 

39  49 

Summit  — 

1902  

76 

1901  

1903  

34,  86 

1903  

1904  

82 

Taneha  — 

Miiscogee  — 

1901  

1899 

61 

1903 

1900 

46 

Terrell  — 

North  Coalgate  — 

1896 

1903  

34 

Thackerville  — 

North  Fork— 

1896  

1903 

34 

Oakland— 

1896             ..     .  . 

1896 

118 

Okmulgee  — 

Tulsa— 
1899 

1897  

.     .                 52 

1900  

1899  

61 

1900  

46 

Valiant— 

1Q01 

qq 

1903  

1903. 

34 

Wagoner  — 

Oktaha— 

1899 

1901  

39 

1900. 

1903... 

34 

1903.  .  . 

Page. 


118 

118 

118 

34 

39 
85 

61 
46 
89 


31 


118 


35 


118 


102 


118 


34 

39 
34 

118 
118 
118 

61 
46 

34 

61 
46 
84 


106 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Reservation—  Continued. 
For  town  site  at  — 
Wapanucka  — 

Page. 

Reservation  —  Con  ti  nued  . 
For  Wealaka  boarding  school  — 
1897  

Page. 

1903      

34 

1899  

61 

1900 

49 

1896 

118 

1901 

">0 

Wetumka  — 

1902 

77 

1901                                  

39 

1903..   .. 

87 

1903               

34 

1904  

S3 

Wild  Horse— 
1903 

34 

For  \Vetumka  boarding  school— 
1897 

52 

Windy  II  ill— 

1899 

61 

1903                                  

34 

For  Whcelock  Seminary  — 

Winchell— 

1896  

101 

1901  

39 

1897  

11 

1903 

34 

1898 

27 

Woodville— 

1899 

39 

1901 

39 

1900 

66 

1903                           

35 

1901. 

82 

Wynnewood  — 

1902.. 

62  92 

1896  

118 

1903  

72  108 

Y  eager  — 

1904  

68,  104 

1901 

39 

For  Willie  Halsell  College  Cherokee 

1903 

34 

Nation— 

For  town  sites* 

1899 

54 

Cherokee  Nation  — 

1900 

42 

1902                        

103 

1902 

103 

1903  

119 

1903  

119 

1904  

115 

1904  

115 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1902 

91  92 

For  Woodmount  Mission— 
1899 

54 

1903 

65  108 

Military  Fort  Gibson  — 

1904 

104 

1899 

54 

Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1896                                  

114,118 

Of  asphalt  lands  — 
1896 

101 

Panola   County,   Chickasaw    Na 

1898 

18 

tion— 

1899 

32 

1896  

118 

1900 

59 

Pontotoc  County,  Chickasaw  Na 

1901  

75 

tion  — 

1896  

118 

1903 

65  108 

Tishomingo    County,   Chickasaw 

1904  

61,104 

Nation— 
1896 

118 

Of  asphalt  and    coal,   Choctaw  and 

For  tribal  court-houses— 

1897 

11 

1902 

92 

1898 

27 

1903 

108 

1899 

39 

1904 

104 

1900 

66 

For  Tushkahoma  Female  Seminary  — 

1901.                        

82 

1896  

101 

1902  

62 

1897  

11 

1903  

72 

1898  

27 

1904  

68 

1899 

39 

Of  coal  lands  — 

1900 

66 

1894 

8  10 

1901 

82 

1896 

101 

1902 

62,92 

In  Creek  Nation  — 

1903  

72,  108 

1894  :.. 

8 

1904 

68  104 

In  town  sites  — 

For  Tuscaloosa  Academy  — 

1898 

22 

1896  

101 

1899. 

35 

For  university  established  by  Baptist 

1900  

62 

Home  Missionary  Society,  Bacone  — 

1901  

78 

1900 

49 

1902 

58 

1901      

50 

1903 

68 

1902  

77 

1904  

64 

1903  

87 

In  Seminole  Nation  — 

1904... 

83 

1894... 

13 

T11E 

Reservation  —  Continued. 
Of  Delaware  lands— 
1897 

FIVE    CIVI 
Page. 
38 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Reservation—  Continued. 
Of  oil  land— 
1902 

107 

Page. 
55 

Of  gas  land— 
1896 

101 

1903. 

65 

1904               

'        61 

Of  homesteads— 
1899 

83 

Of  Poteau  strip— 
1897 

11 

1900 

36 

1898 

27 

1901 

97 

1899 

39 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1894 

11 

1900 

(56 

1901 

82 

1902 

102 

1902. 

62 

1903 

118 

1903  

72 

1904 

114 

1904  

68 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1902                                                          89 

Of  school  lands— 
1894 

13 

1903 

105 

Of  Sulphur  Springs  — 
1902  .              .                

99 

1904 

101 

Creek  Nation— 
1899 

60 

1903  

115 

1904  

Ill 

1900 

46,61 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1899 

53 

1901 

46  52 

1902 

73  78  87 

1902 

103 

1903 

83  88  103 

1903 

119 

1904 

79  84  99 

1904 

115 

Seminole  Nation— 
1894 

13 

Choctaw  and  Chiekasaw  nations  — 
1896                                                                101 

1897 

78 

1897                        .   . 

...            11 

1899 

88 

1898 

27 

1901 

55 

1899       .  .             

39 

1902 

81 

1900              

66 

1903 

91 

1901     

82 

1904 

87 

190° 

62 

Of  land  at  Fort  Smith— 

101 

1903 

72 

1904  

68 

1897 

11 

Creek  Nation— 
1894  8 

-IQQQ 

27 

1899 

39 

Contest  cases— 
1903  

160 

1000 

fifi 

1901 

82 

Disposition  of— 
1900  

43 

1902 

62  92 

1903   .     .                       . 

72  108 

For  court-houses  — 
1897  

11,52 

Of  mineral  lands— 
1896 

101  114  117 

1898             

27 

1899  

61 

1900  

39,48,49,66 

1898  

18 

1899 

32 

1902  

...  62,75,77 

1900  

59 

1901  

75 

1903  

1902  

55 

Disposition  of— 

1903  

65 

1904  ^61 

1897  

Mineral  lands  — 
Cherokee  Nation— 
1894  

•w 
11 

1898  
1899                   

42 

1900 

69 

1901 

85 

Chickasaw  Nation— 
1894 

10 

1902 

65 

1QAO 

75 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1894.                10 

1904        

71 

Residence  in  Indian  Territory, 
to  enrollment: 
1898 

essential 
3  24 

Seminole  Nation— 
1894  

13 

Of  oil  land— 

1899 

37 

1900 

64 

1898 

18 

1901                 .            

80 

1899 

32 

1902 

60 

1900 

59 

1903 

70 

1901... 

75 

1904... 

66 

108 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Residue  lands:  Page. 

Disposition  of — 

1900 36 

1904 125 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1899 50 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1902: 90 

1903 106 

1904 102 

Disposition  of,  in  Creek  Nation— 

1899 59 

1900 46 

1901 47 

1902 74 

1903 84 

1904 10,  80, 123 

1905 7,50 

Seminole  Nation,  disposition  of— 

1904 11 

Resolution  of  adjournment   not  subject 
to  Presidential  approval: 

1897 100 

Resolutions: 

Of  Cherokee  council,  appointment  of 
committee  to  confer  with  Com 
mission— 

1894 11 

Of  Commission — 

Allotment  to  full-bloods— 

1905 37 

Death  of  Henry  L.  Dawes— 

1903 60 

For  the  protection  of  allottees— 

1904 42 

Preparationof  Cherokee  patents— 

1905 58 

Of  Cherokee  council- 
December    10,    1869,    concerning 
North  Carolina  Cherokees— 

1901 159 

Inviting   Commission    to    Tahle- 
quah — 

1896 127 

Of  Chickasaw  council  authorizing 
negotiating  with  Commission— 

1895 65 

Of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  council 
rejecting  proposals  of  Commis 
sion— 

1895 79 

Choctaw  council,  removal  of  Missis 
sippi  Choctaws— 

1899 96 

1901 112 

Of  Creek  council — 

Authorizing  negotiations— 

1896 156 

Refusing  to  negotiate  with  Com 
mission— 

1894 8 

Rejecting  proposed  agreement— 

1897 59, 63, 68 

Of  international    council    at   South 
McAlester — 
1896...  158 


Resolutions — Continued.  Page. 

Relative  to  negotiations  not  subject 
to  departmental  approval — 

1897 100 

Seminole  council — . 

Creating  commission  to  negotiate 
with  Dawes  Commission— 

1897 71 

Instructing     Seminole     commis 
sion — 

1897 72 

Seminole   Nation,   refusing  to  nego 
tiate  with  Commission — 

1894 13 

Senate— 

As  to  printing  of  annual  report— 

1394 7 

March  29,  1894,  investigation   of 
Five  Civilized  Tribes— 

1899 160 

1901 179 

Suspending  law  as  to  jurisdiction 
of  United  States  court— 

1898 4 

Resources  of  Indian  Territory: 

1900 7 

Responsibility  for  discrimination  against 
Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1894 46 

Restraining  order  of  United  States  court, 
enrollment  of  Cherokee  freedmen: 

1902 119 

1903 136 

1904 142 

Restrictions,  removal  of: 

1904 123 

Return  of  freedmen  to  Cherokee  Nation: 

1904 25 

Revenue: 

Collection  of — 

1897 23 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1900 42 

'  1902 108 

1903 124 

1904 120 

Chickasaw  Nation — 

1896 119 

Reversion  of  land  to  United  States,  possi 
bility  of: 

1896 100 

Review: 
^In  contest  cases — 

1903 159, 165 

1904 195,199 

Motion  for,  in  contest  cases — 

1902 K51 

Revision: 

Of  citizenship  rolls  by  Commission— 

1897 84 

Of  Wallace  roll— 

1894 11 

Rice,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 106 

Riddle,  J.  T.,  et  al.,  decision  in  citizen 
ship  case  of: 
1904 13 


THE    FIVE 

Right  of  citizens  by  intermarriage,  Chero 
kee  Nation: 
1903 

CIVI 
Page. 
23 

6 
155 

44 

159 

86 
102 

98 

105 
121 
117 

52 

GO,  171 
190 

105 
124 

11 

27 
39 
66 
82 
62,  92 
72,  108 
68,  104 

127 

38 
13f> 

39 
35 

26 

83 

23 
36 
63 
79 
59 
69 
65 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Roll  —  Continued. 
Preparation  of,  1S80— 
1897                                                  

109 

Page. 
86 

4 
9 

83 
16 
16 
10 
84 
53 

13 
14 

12 

13 
11 

27 

12 
,61,66 
10,92 
11,108 
01,  130 

16 
73 
89,91 
69,71 
79,81 
,  75,  77 
15 

84 

142 
64 
19,50 
28,51 
,  38,  78 
87,  102 
,  85,  98 

102 
118 
114 

12 
11 

92 
11 

8 

Right  of  suffrage: 
Essential   to    proper    government  of 
Indian  Territory: 
1905                                         

Corruption  of  tribal  — 
1898  

1904  

Cherokee  freedmen,  discrepencies  — 
1897 

In  Creek  Nation— 
1  896 

Chickasaw  freedmen  — 
1903 

Right  of   way,  acquirement  of  by   rail 
roads: 
1  904                                                           

Of  1896,  names  improperly  added  to  — 
1905.            

Roads: 
Establishment  of  — 
1896                                           

Rolls  of  citizenship: 
1903 

Addition  of  names  by  Commission  — 
1895 

190-2  

1%3 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1899  

1901 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1902 

Chickasaw  Nation  — 
1902 

1<)03                                

1903 

1<K)I                                        

Choc  taw  Nation  — 
1902  

Robertson,  K.  A.  W.,  reservation  for: 

Robinson,  F.  It.: 
Decision  of  Supreme  Court  in  citizen 
ship  case  of  — 

1903  
1904                       

Closing  of  Creek  Nation  — 
1905  

1901 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1900  

Decision  of  United  States  court  in  citi 
zenship  case  of  — 
1890                                                

1901                                                          10 

1902 

1903 

1901                                             

1904                                                      11  1 

Rock  Academy,  reservation  for: 
1,S97                                

Closing  of  — 
1899 

1898                                

1900 

1399                     

1901                                  -   - 

1900                     

1902  

1903  

1904  21 

1905  

Rogers,  C.  V.: 
Appointed  Cherokee  commissioner  — 
1896                           

Commission  authorized  to  prepare  — 
1895 

Creek  Nation  — 
1896 

Letter  to  Commission  — 
October  28,  1897— 
1897  

1899 

1900 

December  17,  1896— 
1896  

1901 

1902                                                         35 

Roll,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1901                                                             .   .. 

1903                                       -           -     28, 

1904                                                         2C 

1903                                           

Deceased  allottees,  Cherokee  Nation  — 
190l>                               

Roland,  Pruea  L.,  decision  in  enrollment 
case  of: 
1903            .   .             

1903 

1004 

Roll: 
E        Cherokee  freedrnen,  1880— 
1897 

Delay  in  preparation  of  account  of 
protests  of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
attorneys— 
1904 

Confirmation  of,  ISSO— 
1898                                    

Inaccuracy  of— 
1902  

1899                                    

1901 

Progress  of  preparation— 
1897  

1902 

1903 

1904                                 

1904... 

1905...                             

110 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Rolls  of  citizenship  —  Continued. 
Provision  for  preparation  by  Commis 
sion  — 

Page. 

Rolls  of  citizenship  —  Continued. 
Where  filed— 
1897  

Page. 

99 

1897  

98 

1899 

67 

1899 

67 

1900 

56 

1900 

56 

1901 

72 

1901                         

72 

1902 

53 

1902  

52 

1903 

63 

1903 

62 

1904 

59 

1904 

58 

Reopened  — 

1900  

25 

1905          

5,6 

1902 

30 

Report  of  Commission,  July  9,  1897— 
1897  

Rose,  Allie  J.,  decision  in  enrollment  case 
of- 

Requested  from  Cherokee  Nation  — 

1903 

26 

1896 

126 

1897 

35 

1901 

39 

Requested  of  Chickasaw  Nation  — 

1903  

34 

1896              .     .             

111 

1897  

24 

1901 

39 

Request  of  Choctaw  Nation  — 

1903 

34 

1897  

18 

Ross  Robert  B  • 

Requested  of  Creek  Nation  — 
1897 

48  57 

Appointed  Cherokee  Commissioner  — 
1896 

127 

Requested  of  Seminole  Nation  — 
1896 

170 

Letter  to  Commission  — 
December  17  1896  — 

1897.                                        

73 

1896 

135 

Revision  of,  by  Commission  — 
1897  

84 

October  28,  1897— 
1897 

38 

Seminole  Nation— 
1900  

12,  54 

Royalty: 
Collection  of  — 

1901 

30  59 

1897 

23 

1902 

83 

In  Chickasaw  Nation  — 

1903 

99 

1896 

119 

1904 

89 

Disposition  of  — 

1905. 

32 

1896  

103 

To  be  approved  by  the  Secretary  of 

1897  

15 

the  Interior  — 

1898  

8,32 

1898 

25 

1899 

42 

1899 

37  168 

1900 

69 

1900 

64 

1901 

85 

1901 

80 

1902 

65 

1902 

60 

1903                              

75 

1903 

70 

1904                       

71 

1904.                

66 

Seminole  Nation  — 

To  be  descriptive  of  persons  enrolled  — 

1897  

77 

1898 

24 

1901 

54 

1899 

37 

190'» 

81 

1900 

64 

1903 

91 

1901 

80 

1904                                    

87 

1902 

60 

Freedincn  not  to  participate  in  — 

1903 

70 

1896          

104 

1904 

66 

On  timber— 

To  be  filed  with  Commissioner  of  Iii- 

1898  

22 

1899 

35 

1895 

84 

1900 

62 

To  be  prepared  by  Commission 

1901                           

78 

1898 

23 

1902            ...              

58 

1899 

36  166 

1903  

68 

1900 

63 

1904 

64 

1901 

79 

Creek  Nation  — 

1902 

59 

1900 

52 

1903 

69 

1901 

52 

1904 

65 

1902                             

7<) 

Unreliability  of— 

1903  

89 

1897... 

93 

1904... 

>S5 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Ill 


B.oyal  ty — Con  tin  ue«  1 . 
Payment  of — 

1897... 


Page. 

15 

19, 23, 33 
34, 43 
61,70 

77,86 
57,06 
67,76 
63,72 

104 
23 


1899  ............................ 

1900  .........................    -- 

11)01  ............................ 

1902  ............................ 

1903  ............................ 

1904  ............................ 

Kate  of— 

1896  ............................ 

Use  of,  for  educational  purposes— 

1897  .......  ,  .................... 

Rules  and  regulations: 

Governing  allotment  of  land  — 

1903  ...............................  41 

In  Choctaw  and   Cliickasaw  na 
tions  — 
1903  ...........................  51 

Governing  classification  of  land  — 

1899  ...............................  24 

Governing  classification  and  appraise 

ment  of  land— 

1901  ...............................          108 

Governing  classifications  of  land  in  — 

Choctawand  Chickasaw  nations  — 

1901  ...........................  35 

Creek  and  Cherokee  nations— 

1901  ...........................  34 

Governing  dispositions  in  Mississippi 
Choctaws  cases,  identification  of  — 

1902  ...............................          117 

Governing  enrollment  of  citizens  — 

1900  ...............................  14 

Governing  grazing  leases  — 

1899  ...............................  26 

Governing  leasing  of  lands— 

1900  ...............................  30 

Governing  leasing  of  mineral  lands  — 

1898  ...............................     19 

1899  ...............................     33 

1900  ...............................     60 

1901  ...............................     76 

1  902  ...............................     56 

1903  ...............................     66 

1904  ...............................     62 

Governing  recognition  of  agents  and 

attorneys— 

1901  ...............................    103 

1902  ...............................    115 

1903  ...............................    167 


Governing  recognition 
attorneys— 
1904 


f  agents  and 


197,  202 


Governing  sale  of  Delaware  improve 
ments  — 

1904  ......................  .  ........ 

Governing  segregation  for  town-site 
purposes— 

1904  ............................... 

Governing  selection  and  renting  of 
prospective  allotments  — 

1899  ............................... 

1901  ........... 


37 


27 


18,  81 
96 


Rules  and  regulations — Continued. 

Governing  selection  and  leasing  of  al 
lotments,  amendment  to— 

1899 

1901 

Rules  of  practice: 
In  contest  cases — 

1899 

1901 

1902  . . 


1904. 


In  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  and  Chero 
kee  contests — 

1903 

1904 

Rush  Springs,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1896 

Russell,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

1905 

Russett,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903 

Ryan,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1896 

Ryan,   Thomas,   letter,   October   6,   1903, 
suspending  allotment,  Cherokee  Nation: 

1904 '. 

Sageeyah,  alienation  of  land  for  town- 
site  purposes  at: 

1905 

Sailors,  selection  of  allotments  for: 

1902 

1903 

1904 

St.   Louis  and   San   Francisco  Railroad, 
reservation  for: 

1899 

Salary: 

Of  Commissioners — 

1897 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  Cherokee  commissioners — 

1896 

Of  Chickasaw  commissioners — 

1896 ". 

Of  Choctaw  commissioners — 

1896 

Of  Creek  commissioners — 

1896 

Of  judges  under  act  of  April  2S,  1<)04— 

1904 

Of  mining  trustees— 
1897... 


1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904... 


Page. 


83,84 
98, 99 


21,84 
100 

112, 161 
160 
201 


163 

201 

118 

64 
35 
118 

34 

64 

108 

42, 124 
120 


97 
66 
55 
71 
51 
61 
57 

128 
112 
98 
157 
TJG 

15 
32 
42 
69 
85 
65 
75 
71 


112 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Sale  of  allotments: 
Creek  Nation  — 
1902 

Page. 

87 

Sale  of  land—  Continued. 
Allotted  to  Mississippi  Choctaws  pro 
hibited— 
1900 

Page. 

73 
89 

70 
79 

36 

89 
105 
101 

19 

33 
GO 
76 
56 
66 
62 

60 
51 
46 
73 
83 
79 

35,  126 
121 

29 

29 
29 
29 

29 

29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 

1903  

103 

1904  

99 

1901 

Deceased  Mississippi  Choctaws— 
1901 

fiS  67 

1902  

1903 

Sale  of  coal  and  asphalt  lands,  Choc  taw 
and  Chickasaw  nations: 
1902                 .              «9 

1904  

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1900 

1903..              

114 

Choctaw  and  Chickasnw  nations  — 
1902  

1904  

...  106,124 

Sale  of  homesteads,  Creek  Nation: 
1900 

51 

1903  

1904 

1901 

46 

Conditions  of— 

1898 

1902 

73 

83 

1903          

1899 

1901   

79 

1900  

Sale  of  improvements: 
1900  

36 

1901  

1902  

1902 

159  161 

1903 

Chickasaw  freedmen,  by  — 
1894 

37 
35 
46 

1904  

Creek  Nation  — 
1899. 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1900  
Creek  Nation  — 
1900  

1900  

1901  

1902  

1901  

-16 

1903  

1902 

73 

1904 

1903 

83 

For  town-site  purposes  — 
1903 

1904 

79 

By  Delaware  Indians  — 
1904  
1905. 

.   10,36,124 
7,41 

14 
...       21,31 
34,41 

1904 

For  town-site  purposes  at  — 
Ada— 
1904  

Sale  of  intoxicants  prohibited: 
1897  

Ardmore  — 
1904  

1898  

1899  

Bixby— 
190  1  

1900  

61  ,  68 

1901 

77  84 

Bokoshe  — 
1901 

1902 

57  65 

1903 

67  75 

Bristow— 
1901  
Broken  Arrow  — 
1904  

1904  

In  Creek  Nation  — 
1899  

(53,  71 
53 

1900  

Chase— 
1904 

1901 

53 
80 

1902 

Checotah  — 
1904 

1903 

90 

1904 

86 

Chickasha— 
1901  
Coweta  — 
1901  

In  Seminole  Nation  — 
1897 

78 

1899.             

88 

1901  

55 

Depew— 
1904 

1909 

82 

1903  

92 

Dustin  (Spokogee)— 
1904 

1904 

88 

On  Sulphur  Springs  reservation  — 
1902 

100 
116 
112 

Eufaula  — 
1904  

1903 

Henryetta  — 
1904 

1904 

Sale  of  land: 
1896  

118 

Holdenville— 
1904  
Indianola  — 
1904  

Act  of  April  21,  1904— 
1904 

123 

Act  of  March  3,  1903— 
1904... 

27- 

Kinta— 
1904... 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


113 


Sale  of  land—  Continued. 
For  town-site  purposes  at  — 
Mill  Creek— 
1904 

Page. 

29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
29 
14 

127 
122 

73 

89 
57 

14 

77 

100,  106 
17 
36 
45 

88 
68 
78 
74 

125 
123 

23 
36 
63 
79 
59 

Sale  of  timber  —  Continued. 
1903. 

Page. 

69 

1904  

65 

Sale  of  town  lots: 
1896 

102 

Morris— 
1904 

1899 

52  62 

Muskogee— 
1904 

1900. 

37  47  74 

1901  

61,68,90 

Gkemah  — 
1904 

1902  

...  70,75,97 

1903  

..  cSO,85,  113 

Gkmulgee— 
1904                                

1904 

76  81  109 

Advertisement  of  — 
1897 

13 

Oktaha— 
1904 

1898  

31 

Gluey— 
1904 

1899  

41 

1900  

68 

Paden— 
1904 

1901  

84 

1902 

64 

Porter— 
1904 

1903 

74 

1904              

70 

Quinton  — 
1904 

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1902  

106 

Sapulpa  — 
1904 

1903  

122 

1904  

118 

Stuart— 
1904 

Chickasaw  Nation— 
1896 

118 

Tulsa— 
1904 

Method  of— 

1898 

21 

Weleetka— 
1904 

1899            

35 

1900  

62 

Wetumka— 
1904 

1901  

78 

1902  

58 

Proposed  by  Indian  — 
1894 

1903 

68 

1904  

64 

Seminole  Nation— 
1903 

Seminole  Nation— 
1897 

77 

1904 

1899                             

88 

To  Seminoles  opposed  by  Creeks— 
1897 

1901                        

55 

1902          

81 

1899 

1903  

91 

1901 

1904  

88 

To  United  States  by  Choctaws  and 
Chickasaws  — 
1898                                      .   . 

Salina,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1902             

30 

Sallisaw,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at 
1900                          

25 

1899             

Sale  of  orphan  lands  in  Mississippi: 
1896      

1901              

23 

Salt,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 
1901  

106 

1897 

1899 

Sango,  Garrett  v.,  contest  case  of: 
1903  

142 

1901 

Sapulpa: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
poses  at  — 
1904 

pur- 

29 

1902 

1903                     

1904 

Sale  of  residue  lands: 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 
1904 

1905 

64 
30 

Enrollment  of  children  at  — 
1905                        

Creek  Nation— 
1904 

Enrollment  of  Creeks  at  — 
1897 

64 

Sale  of  timber: 
1898 

Reservation  for  town  site  at— 
1899 

61 

1899 

1900                    

46 

1900  

Sapulpa,  W.  A.: 
Letter  of  August  16,  1896— 
1896... 

..  143.144 

1901 

1902... 

15013—00 8 


114 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Sapulpa,  W.  A.—  Continued. 
Letter  of  Commission  to  — 
August  17  1896  — 

Page. 

School  funds—  Continued. 
Disposition  of  — 
1897 

Page. 
15 

1896 

143 

1898 

33 

August  18  1896  — 

1899 

43 

1896                                    

144 

1900. 

70 

Letter  to  A  S  MoKennon  — 

1901  

86 

August  22  1896  — 

1902  

66 

1896 

144 

1903 

76 

August  25  1896  — 

1901 

72 

1896 

'    144 

For  incorporated  towns  — 

August  27  1896  — 

1898  

20 

1896                                      

146 

1899  

34 

Letter  to  Commission  — 

1900  

61 

December  16  1896- 

1901 

77 

1896 

15'2  161 

1902 

57 

December  18  1896  — 

1903 

67 

1896 

163 

1901 

63 

September  27,  1897— 
1897 

56 

Seminole  Nation  — 
1894 

13 

October  12  1897 

1897  

77 

1897 

58 

1899  

88 

1901  

55 

1903 

157 

1902  

81 

1903 

92 

1897 

11 

1904  

88 

1898  

27 

To  be  derived  from  royalties  — 

1899 

39 

1896  

104,  120 

1900  

66 

School  lands,  reservation  of: 

1901 

82 

1894          

15 

1902 

62  92 

Schools: 

1903 

72  108 

Establishment  of,  in— 

1904 

68  104 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1899 

54 

1902 

135 

Creek  Nation  — 

1897 

70 

1901          

39 

Incorporated  towns  — 

1903 

35 

1898 

21 

1899. 

34 

For  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  freed- 

1900.            

61 

mprt    • 

1901  

77 

1894 

32  38 

1902 

57 

For  white  children  — 

1903  ."  

67 

1894 

19 

1904  

63 

1895 

72 

For  noiicitizens  in  Seminole  Nation  — 

1897 

88 

1897 

78 

1898 

9 

1899 

88 

1901 

g 

1901 

55 

Schoolhouses  reservation  for- 

1902 

81 

1900 

40  41 

1903                     

92 

School  funds' 

1904       

88 

1894 

9 

Necessity  for  — 

1899 

28 

1896 

104 

Provision  for  — 

1902 

98 

1894 

11 

1903                           

114 

1899 

54 

1901                       

110 

1900 

40 

Provisions  for,  in  — 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations  — 
1894 

10 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1902 

105 

1903                                         

121 

1894 

9 

1904                   

117 

1900  

52 

Seminole  Nation  — 

1901 

52 

1897  

77 

1902 

79 

1899  

88 

1903 

89 

1901 

55 

1904... 

85 

1902... 

81 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


115 


Schools — Continued.  Page. 
Provisions  for,  in — 
Seminole  Nation— 

1903 92 

1904 88 

Reservations  for,  in — 
Cherokee  Nation — 

1902 103 

1903 119 

1904 115 

Choctaw  and  Chiekasuw  nations — 

1897 11 

1898 27 

1899 39 

1900 66 

1901 82 

1902 G2, 92 

1903 72,108 

1904 08, 104 

Reservations  for — 

1904 32 

Reservation  for —  • 

1896 101 

1897 52,  77 

1898 18 

1899 32, 49, 61, 63, 88 

1900 59 

1901 55,75 

1902 56, 81 

1903 66, 91 

1904 62, 88 

School  taxes,  payment  of: 

1897 15 

1898 33 

1899 43 

1900 70 

1901 86 

1902 66 

1903 76 

1904 72 

School-teachers,  examination  of: 

1900 40, 52 

1901 52 

1902 79, 105 

1903 89, 121 

1904 85, 117 

3ale,  identification  of  Mississippi  Choc- 
taws  at:    ' 

1902 24 

Secretary  of  Interior: 

Appeal  to,  in  contest  cases — 

1899 21 

Conference  of  Commission  with — 

1895 59 

Letter  of  Commission   to,   April    24, 
1897— 

1897 30 

Letter  to,  June  15,  1897— 

1897 34 

Letter  of,  July  22, 1897,  concerning  en 
rollment  of  freedmen— 

1897 84 

Report  of  Commission  to — 

Concerning  citizenship  rolls — 

1897 83 

September  20, 1897— 


Secretary  of  Interior— Continued. 

Report  of  Commission  to — 

October  11,  1897— 

1897 

To  appoint  Indian  inspector  in  In 
dian  Territory— 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

To  approve— 

Cherokee  deeds— 

1899 

1900 

Creek  deeds — 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Mineral  leases  in  Seminole   Na 
tion— 

1897 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Rolls  of  citizenship — 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902. 

1903 

1904... 


Sectional  diagram: 
Form  of — 

1899 

1901 

Showing  allotments — 
1900... 


Page. 


50 


77 
54 
81 
91 

87 

25 

37, 168 
64 
80 
60 
70 


82 
220 


Sectional   map  showing   irregularity  of 
farms: 

1900 32 

Segregation: 

Of  coal  and  asphalt— 

1902 92, 98 

1903 33, 108, 114 

1904 104, 110, 126 

Of  Delaware  land — 

1898 7, 25 

1899 38 

1900 37, 65 

1901 81 

1902 61, 102 

1903 45, 71 , 118 

1904 34, 67, 114 

Amendment  of — 

1904 171 

Decision  of  Supreme  Court — 

1904 181 

Report  of  December  31,  1903— 

1904...  169 


116 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Segregation — Continued .  Page. 

Of  land  at  Sulphur— 

1902 92 

1903 ..  108,115 


1904. 


Selection  of  allotment  contest  cases: 
1903 

Selection  of  allotments: 

For  convicts — 

1896... 


104 


160 


1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

For  incompetents — 

1896 

1899 

1901 

1902... 


101 

60 

65,70 

100,108 

42, 52, 116, 124 
120 


101 

60 

65,70 

100, 108 

1903 42, 124 

1904 120 

For  minors,  Cherokee  Nation — 

1902 100, 108 

1903 42, 52, 116, 120, 124 

For  prisoners — 

1896 101 

1899 60 

1901 65,  70 

1902 100, 108 

1903 42,  52, 116, 124 

1904 112, 120 

For   soldiers   and    sailors,   Cherokee 
Nation— 

1902 108 

1903...                                                 .  42,124 


1904 

Under  power  of  attorney — 

1903 : 

Self-government: 

Guaranteed  by  United  States— 

1894 

Impossibility  of— 

1894 

Self-immigration  claim,  settlement  of: 

1897 

1J-99 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 , 

Seminole  agreement: 
October  17, 1899— 

1900 

1901... 


120 


42, 52 


54 

59 

1 902 80, 83 


1903 

1904 

Ratification  of— 

1898 

Proposed— 

1894 

Seminole  citizenship  rolls  reopened: 
1905 

Seminole  commission,  appointment  of: 
1897... 


13 


5,7 


Seminole  correspondence: 

1897 

Seminole  council: 

Instructions    to    Seminole    commis 
sion — 

1897 

Resolution    instructing    negotiating 
commission— 

1897 

Seminole  freedmen,  treaty  of  1866: 

1894 

Seminole  Indians: 
Number  of— 

1899 

To  take  their  improvements  in  Creek 
Nation — 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1901 

Semingle  land  office,  establishment  of 
Wewoka: 

1905 

Seminole  national  council,  resolution 
creating  commission  to  negotiate  with 
Dawes  Commission: 

1897 

Seminole  rolls,  requested  by  Commission: 

1896 

Seminole  town-site  act: 

1899 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Seminole  treaty  of  I860,  provision  affect 
ing: 

1894 

Seminole  treaties  not  to  be  affected  by 
agreement  of  December  1(1,  1897: 

1897 

1899 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Seminoles: 

Conference  with,  at  Muscogee — 

1897 

Enrollment  of — 

1899 

Progress  of  enrollment  of— 

1905 

Senate  committee,  report  of  C.  Jk'liino 
concerning  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
freedmen: 

1894 

Senate  resolutions: 

March  29,  1894,  investigation  of  con 
dition  of  Five  Tribes — 

1899 

1901 

July  17, 1897,  suspending  law  as  to  jur 
isdiction  of  United  States  court — 
1898... 


THE    FIVE    CIV1 

{Senate  resolution,  printing  of  annual  re-     Page. 
port: 
1  894  7 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Settlement  —  Continued. 
Of  claims  — 
Desired  by  Five  Tribes— 
1890  

117 

Page. 

168 

13 

78 
X8 
55 
81 
92 
88 

154 
54 

49 
50 

77 
87 
83 

58,  63 
41,49 
50 
77,  98 
87,114 
83,110 

24 

71 
93 
131 
137 

26 
191 

54 
103 
119 

115 

66 

56 

,28,46 
167 
186 

39 

60 

32 

208 
154 

Senora,  for  enrollment  of  Creeks  at 
1  902  

36 

Seminole  Nation  — 
1894 

Senter,  W.  R.,  decision  of  United 
court  in  citizenship  case: 
1899 

States 
100 

1897 

1899. 

1901              .                      

119 

1901  

Service  of  notice: 
In  contest  cases  — 
1899  

85 

1902  

1903  

1904  

1901  

101 

Loyal  Creek  — 
1896 

1902 

113 

1903 

163  164 

1897. 

1904 

198  201 

Self  -Immigration,  Creek  Nation  — 
1900  

Method  of— 
1898  

17 
32 

1901  

1899  

190-J  

1900  

59 

1903  

1'JOl 

75 

1904 

190" 

55 

Sewers,  provisions  for: 
1899.. 

1903 

65 

1904 

61 

1900  .  . 

Service  of  process,  suit  of  Chickasaw 
men: 
1901          

frecd- 
f>3 

1901  ... 

1902  

1903  

Settlement: 
Of  allotment  contests  — 
1902  

85 

1904  

Shawnce  Indians: 
Enrollment  of  — 
1905 

1  903 

101 

1904 

97 

Right  to  siiarc  in  Cherokee  funds  — 
1899 

Of  Creek  Nation— 
1899 

20 

1901   . 

Of  claims  — 
Against  United  .States  — 
1894  

g 

1903 

1904. 

Number  of  — 
1905  

1895  

88 

1896  

.   .   .            145 

Shepherd  v.  Marshall,  contest  case  of: 
1904  

Cherokee  Nation  — 
1894  

11 

Skiatook  Mission,  reservation  for: 
1899 

1896 

132 

1899 

56 

1902 

1900 

43 

1903 

1902  

108 

1904 

1903  

124 

Skiatook,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 
1905  

1901  

120 

Choclaw     and     Chickiisaw 
tions  — 
1894 

na- 
10 

Slade,  James  A.,  investigation  of  Cherokee 
accounts: 
1899 

1897 

17 

1898 

35 

Slavery,  abolition  of: 
1894                                                              21 

1899  

44 

1900  

71 

.     .  .               87 

1899 

1901  

1901 

1902 

67 

Smith,    Edward    P.,    report    concerning 
Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  freedmen: 
1894 

1903 

77 

1904 

73 

Creek  Nation  — 
1900  

49 

Smith,  Hoke,  letter  to  Commission,  May 
6,  1895: 
1895 

1901  

50 
77 

1902  

Smith,  H.  Van,  letter  to  D.  W.  Bushyhead: 

1897 

1903  

87 

1904 

83 

Smith,  Nancy,  opinion  Attorney-General 
in  enrollment  case  of: 
1901 

Desired  by  Chickasaws  — 
1894.   ...             ... 

10 

1896  

•   117 

Smith,  Cherry  r.,  contest  case  of: 
1903... 

1897... 

23 

118 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Smith,  Lester  r.,  contest  case  of: 


Smith,  Minton  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1902 '. 

Smith,  Mclntosh  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1902 

Smith,  Sookey  r.,  contest  case  of: 

1903 140, 147 

Smithville,  enrollment  of  children  at: 

1905 19 

Snake  uprising: 

1901 30 

Effect  on  classification  of  land— 

1901 33 

Effect  of  enrollment— 

1901 28 

Soap  for  field  parties,  purchase  of: 

1901 105 

Soil,  character  of: 

1894 15 

Soldiers,  selections  of  allotment  for — 

1902 108 

1903 42, 124 

1904 120 

Sookey  v.  Smith,  contest  case  of: 

1902 156 

1903 140, 147 

Soper,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903 34 

Sorrell  v.  Vance,  contest  case  of: 

1903 148 

Sorus,  Tobler  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1903 150 

South  McAl ester: 

Conference  at— 

1896 98 

Enrollment  of  children  at — 

1905 20 

Enrollment  of  Choctaws  at — 

1899 15 

12 


Page,   i   Speculation  in  Indian  lands  prohibited     Page. 

'       by  employees: 

1904 124 

Spencer  Academy,  reservation  for: 

1896 101 

Spices,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901...  106 


139,146 
142 
141 


1901 

International  council  at — 

1896 153 

Reservation  for  town  site  at — 

1896 102 

Suggested    as   place    for    conference 
with  Choc  taws— 

1897 7 

Trial  of  citizenship  cases  at — 

1904 14 

Spaulding  Institute,  disposition  of  land: 

1900 48 

1901 49 

1902 76 

1903 86 

1904 82 

Spavinaw,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at. 

1900 25 

1 1)02 30 

Special   disbursing  agent,  appropriation 
for. 

1897 99 

1899 68 

1900 57, 73 

1901 73, 89,  91 

1902 53,  69, 71, 84 

1903 63,  79, 81 , 100, 125 

1904 59,75,77,95,121 


Spokogee,  sale  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses: 

1903 35 

Spring  Place,  Moravian  Mission,  reserva 
tion  for: 

1899 54 

Springer,  Wm.  M.: 

Opinion  in  citizenship  cases — 

1889 112, 156 

1901 m,  175 

Opinion  in  citizenship  case  of — 
Caleb  W.  Hubbard— 

1899 147 

1901 166 

Wm.  J.  Watts— 

1899 133 

1901 152 

Standley,  J.  S.,  telegram  to  Commission, 
March  26.  1897: 

1897 7 

Starvilla,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at — 

1902 30 

Statement: 

Of  contest  cases  disposed  of  by  De 
partment— 

1904 196 

Of    disbursement     of     Commission, 
March  3,  1893,  and  January  1,  1901— 

1901 218 

Of  disbursement  for  year  ending — 
June  30,  1902— 

1902 

June  30, 1903— 

1903 

June  30, 1904— 

1904 

June  30, 1905— 

1905 

Showing  disposition  of  contest  cases — 

1903 

Statehood: 

Consent  of  Cherokees  to  be  given — 

1899 58 

Consent  of  Creeks — 

1899 65 

Contemplated  by  act  of  Mar.  3, 1893— 

1897 97 

1899 66 

1900 55 

1901 71 

1902 51 

1903 61 

1904 57 

Not  to  be  established  without  consent 
of  Indians— 

1897 69 

Objection  of  Creeks  to  union  with 
.  Oklahoma — 

1897...  62 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


119 


Statehood  —  Continued. 
Preparation  for  — 
1896 

Page. 
105 

Stonewall—  Continued. 
Reservation  at  Chickasaw  Nation— 
1896 

Page. 
118 

1899 

28 

Stidham  v  Morris  content  case  of' 

To  be  deferred  twenty-five  years  — 

1902 

149  152 

1897 

72 

Stilwell,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

To  take  place  of  tribal  government  — 

1901..                  .            

23 

1896          

155 

Stipulation  for  judgment  in  contest  cases: 

Statistics' 

1902  

161 

Allotment  contests  — 

1903 

160 

1903 

57 

Stuart   alienation  of  land  for  town-site 

Disposition  of  allotment  cases— 
1903 

161 

purposes  at: 
1904                .     .                               

29 

Enrollment  of  — 

1905. 

64 

Cherokees  — 
1903  

18 

Stroup,  Henry,  reimbursement  for  serv 
ices: 

Choctaws  and  Chickasaws  — 

1897 

99 

1902 

164 

1899 

68 

Creeks  — 

1900 

67 

1905 

31 

1901.                                                

73 

Showing  status  of  enrollment  — 

1902  

53 

1905                                       

9 

1903  

63 

Status  of  eastern  band  of  Cherokees: 

1904  

59 

1899                          

113 

Subdivision  of  allotments,  Choctaw  and 

1901                               

132 

Chickasaw  nations: 

Stecle  N  L    reimbursement  of  services  — 

1902 

90 

1897 

99 

1903 

105 

1899 

68 

1904 

102 

1900 

57 

Subdivision  of  land  Cherokee  Nation: 

1901 

73 

1902                                        

101 

1902                                                          

53 

1903  

117 

1903 

63 

1904 

113 

1904                                                  

59 

Subdivisional  survey: 

1899 

20  21 

1901 

32  38 

1896 

128 

1902 

43 

Provision  for  payment  of  Chickasaw 

1904 

9 

Nation— 
1896 

112 

Subpoenaes,  Commission  authorized  to  is 
sue: 

1896  

83 

1897 

98 

1897  

98 

1899                                                  

66 

1899  

67 

1900 

56 

1900 

56 

1901 

72 

1901 

72 

1909 

52 

1902 

52 

1903 

62  126 

1903                                        

62 

1904 

58  121 

1904  

58 

Stephens,    Wm.,    decision    of    Supreme 

Suffrage,  right  of  Creek  Nation: 
1896 

155 

1899 

It  10  169 

Sugar,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 

188 

1901 

105 

Stevenson,  Mack,  memorial  of  Chickasaw 
freedmen: 
1894                                             

53 

Suit  of  Cherokee  Freedmen  v.  Cherokee 
Nation: 
1899  

'  70 

Stewirt  Robert  W  ° 

1901                   

•  92 

1903 

130 

1896 

1904 

136 

1896 

161 

Sulphur  Springs: 

Letter  to  Commission  — 
December  18,  1896— 
1896 

163 

Reservation,  jurisdiction   of    United 
States  Court  — 
1902  

100 

December  16  1896 

1903  

116 

1896 

159 

1904 

112 

Stonewall: 

Reservation  of— 
1902                                         

99, 

1903           .  .                   

115 

1905.  .  . 

64 

1904.  .  . 

104 

120 


THE   FIVE   CIVILIZED   TRIBES. 


Summit,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1901 

1903 

Supplemental  agreement: 
With  Cherokees— 

1902 

With  Choctawa  and  Chickasaws — 

1901 

1902 

With  Creeks— 

1902... 


Supplies: 

Amount  of,  for  field  parties— 
1901 , 

Invoices  for  field  parties— 
1901... 


Supreme  Court: 

Appeal  to,  in  citizenship  cases— 
1898... 


1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Appeal  of  Chickasavv  freedmen— 

1901 

Appeal  to,  in  Choctaw  and  Chicka- 
saw  citizenship  cases— 

1901 

Appeal  of  Creek  claims  to— 

1896 

Appeal  of  intermarried  Cherokees 
to— 

1905 

Appeal  to,  in  Delaware  case — 


Page. 
39 
34 


106 


106 


,  69, 168 
72 

88, 187 
69 
79 

75 

63 


61 

155 

7,26 


1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 
Decision  in  Delaware  case— 

1904 181 

Decisions  in  citizenship  cases — 

1899 160 

1901 179 

Decision  in  citizenship  case  of— 

Jacob  S.  Ayers— 

1899 160 

1901 188 

Mattie  J.  Ayers— 

1899 160 

1901 188 

Stephen  G.  Ayers— 

1899 160,188 

Jennie  Johnson  et  al.— 

1899 160 

.  1901 190 

F.  R.  Robinson— 

1899 160 

1901 190 

Wm.  Stephen— 

1899 160 

1901...  188 


Supreme  Court — Continued.  Page. 

Decision  in  suit  of  Eastern  Band  of 
Cherokees — 

1899 113, 119, 138 

1901 132 

Injunction,       allotment       Delaware 
lands— 

1904 34 

Opinion  of,  in  citizenship  case  of  Wm. 
Stephens  et  al. — 

1899 169 

1901 188 

Surplus  land: 

Disposition  of— 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1902 90 

1903 106 

1904 102 

Creek  Nation — 

1897 51 

1904 10, 123 

Cherokee  Nation,  disposition  of — 

1899 50 

Of  the  Seminole  Nation,  disposition 
of— 

1904 11 

Survey: 

Expense  of— 

1896 118 

Essential  to  allotment — 

1896 101 

Not  made  as  provided  in   treaty  of 
1866— 

1894 26 

Of  Choctaw  Nation,  request  by  freed 
men— 

1894 82 

Progress  of— 

1902 44 

Provisions  of  act  of  March  2, 1895— 

1899 20 

Of  improvements — 

1900 29 

1901 38 

1903 31 

Of  Indian  lands— 

1897 <J7 

1899 21 , 66 

1900 55 

1901 71 

1902 51 

1903 61 

1904 57 

Of  lands  to  be  made  without  expense 
to  tribes— 

1897 14 

1898 31 

1899 41 

1900 68 

1901 '..  84 

1902 65 

1903 75 

1904 71 

Of  town  sites— 

1897 54 

1898 .- 21 

1899 35,51,53,61 


THE   FIVE    CIVI 

Survey—  Continued.                                          Page. 
of  town  sites  — 
1900                                                         37  47  62 

LIZED   TKIBES. 

Tallahassee  colored  boarding  school,  res 
ervation  for  —  Continued. 
1900                                    

121 

Page. 

49 
50 
77 
87 
83 

39 
34 

42 

52 
52 
79,88 
89,  104 
85,100 

42 

118 

19 
33,  50 

36,  60 
76 
56 
66 
62 

104 
15 
33 
43 
70 
86 
66 
76 
72 

87 
103 
99 

46 
46 
73 
83 
79 

17 
32 
69 
75 
55 
65 
61 

102 
118 
114 

1901                                                               47  78 

1901                                 

1902                                                         58  74  97 

1902                                      

1903                                                       68  84,113 

1903..  .                     

1904                                                       64,  80,  109 

1904...  

Cherokee  Nation— 
1899                                                             51 

Taneha,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1901 

In  Chickasaw  Nation— 
1896                         118 

1903                                                

Tax: 
On  cattle  in  — 
Cherokee  Nation  — 
1900                 

Appropriation  for  — 
1900                                                          73 

1901                                                          89 

1902                                               .  .            70 

Creek  Nation— 
1900  

1903                                        80,  126 

1904                                      76,121,124 

1901  

Expense  to  be  borne  by  United 
States— 
1896                                                           103 

1902 

1903 

1904                                         

1899                                                             63 

On  leased  land,  Cherokee  Nation— 
1900 

1900                                           42,  51 

1901                                               .  .            52 

Taxation: 
Allotments  exempt  from— 
1896                                  

1902                                           --  78,84,107 

1903                                       ...  88,100,123 

1904                                        ....  84,96,119 

Of  allotted  land— 
1898                                

Surveyors  for  Commission  provided  for: 
1897          .                              97,98 

1899                       

1898                                           23 

1900                                    

1899                                                                      36,  66 

1901 

1900                                                  -              55,  56,  63 

1902 

1901                                                                 71,72,79 

1903 

1902                                                                 51,52,59 

1904 

1903                                                              -  61  ,  62,  69 

For  school  purposes— 

1904  57,58,65 

Suspension   of   allotment,  Cherokee  Na 
tion: 
1904  32 

1897                             

1898                                

Swimmer,  appointment   at,    for   enroll 
ment  of  Cherokees: 
1902  30 

1900 

1901 

Sypher,  J.  Hale,  attorneys'  fees: 
1904  125 

1903 

Table  of  genealogy,  Mississippi  Choctaws: 
1902                                                    162 

Of  homesteads  — 
1902 

TalT,  Joseph  A.,  to  locate  coal  and  asphalt 
lands: 

1903 

1904  

Tahlequah: 
Conference  at— 
1896                                             125,130,136,137 

Creek  Nation— 
1900                           

1901 

1902 

1897                                           ...  29,31,32,35 

1903 

Enrollment  of  Cherokees  at  — 

1904  

1901                                                                  23 

Of  land- 
Adjacent  to  Fort  Smith— 
1898  

Establishment  of  land  office  at— 
1904                                                                     32 

International  conference  at— 
1897                                                                  31 

1899                                             -   • 

1900  

Invitation  to  visit  — 
1896                                                                127 

1901 

1902  

Tahlequah  Mission,  reservation  for: 
1899                                                                        54 

1903 

1904  

Tallahassee  colored  boarding  school,  res 
ervation  for  — 
1897                                                                        52 

In  Cherokee  Nation— 
1902 

1903  

1899  ...                                                                   61 

1904  

122 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Taxation— Continued.  Page. 
Of  land- 
In  Choctaw  and   Chickasaw  na 
tions — 

1896 99, 101 

1897 12 

1898 28 

1899 40 

1900 67 

1901 83 

1902 63 

1903 73 

1904 69 

In  Creek  Nation — 

1897 61 

1899 60 

Of  town  property— 

18% 103 

1897 54 

1898 20 

1899 34, 62 

1900 38, 47, 61 


1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  town  lots— 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 
1897... 


1899 

1900 

1901 , 

1902 

1903 

1904 

At  Wewoka — 

1899 , 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Of  tribal  property — 


Taylor,  Beams  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1903 

Tea,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 

Telegram: 

From  John  F.  Brown,  December  10, 
1897— 

1897 

Secretary  of  the  Interior,  November 
1,  1897— 

1897 

Telegrams  by  field  employees: 

1901 

Telegraph  lines,  construction  of: 

1903 

1904 

Telephone  lines,  construction  of: 

1903 

1904 

Teller,  H.  M.,  investigation  of  conditions 
in  Indian  Territory: 
1894... 


48,77 
57,75 
67,85 
63,81 


58 
111 
129 
129 

155 
153 
105 


65 


107 


41 


Tennessee:  Page. 

Notice  of  allotment  to  be  published 
in— 

1898 13 

1899 76 

Tents,  purchase  of: 

1899 12 

Tenure  of  office  bill,  suspension  of: 

1896 112, 120 

Termination  of  Commission: 

1905 5, 8 

Provision  for — 

1904 7, 10, 123 

Termination  of  grazing  leases: 

1901 80 

1902 61 

Terms  of  leasing  of  lands: 

1896 102 

Terms  of  payment  for  town  lots: 

1896 1 02 

Terrell,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1896 118 

Testimony: 

In  contest,  conflicting— 

1902 158 

In  contest  cases — 

1902 161 

Territorial  government: 
Establishment  of — 

1897 99 

1899 68 

1900 57 

1901 73 

1902 53 

1903 63 

1904 59 

For  Chickasaw  Nation— 

1894 10 

For  Creek  Nation — 

1894 9 

Impracticability  of — 

1897 88 

Not  desired  by  Seminoles  for  twenty- 
five  years — 

1897 72 

Texas: 

Notice  of  allotment  to  be  published 
in— 

1898 13 

1899 76 

Thackerville,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1896 118 

Thompson,  B.  F.,  decision  of  citizenship 
court,  enrollment  case  of:  » 

1904 132 

Thompson,  Mayor  v.,  contest  case  of: 

1904 193 

Thompson,  William  C.,  opinion  of  Assist 
ant  Attorney-General,  enrollment  case 
of: 

1905 16 

Tickets  of  admission  to  Cherokee  land 
office: 

1905 48 

Tiger  v.  Huckaby,  contest  case  of: 

1902...  157 


THE   FIVE 

Timber: 
Allotment  of  — 
1903 

CIVI 

Page. 
52 
15 
69 

52 
52 

79 
89 
85 

22 
35 
62 
78 
58 
68 
64 

25 
8,36 
44 

42,  45 

LIZED    TRIBES. 

Titles  to  allotments—  Continued. 
Creek  Nation— 
1900 

123 

Page. 

48 

Character  and  location  of  — 
1894  .     ..'  

1901 

49 

1902 

76 

Destruction  of  — 
1895  

1903 

86 

1904. 

82 

Disposition  of— 
In  Creek  Nation  — 
1900 

Title  to  cemeteries: 
1899  

63 

Title  to  Indian  lands: 
1897 

69 

1901 

1902 

1899 

160 

1903  

1900 

11 

1904  

1901..   . 

179 

Royalty— 
1898  

Complications  of  — 
1897  

89 

1899 

Extinguishment  of— 
1897 

97 

1900 

1901 

1899 

66 

1902  

1900 

55 

1903  

1901  

71 

1904  

1902  

51 

Estimation  of  — 
1899  

1903  

61 

1904  

57 

1901 

Title  to  town  lots,  acquirement  by 
persons: 
1898  

white 
8 

1902  

Pine,  allotment  of  Choctaw  Nation— 
1904  

Tobler  v.  Sorus,  contest  case  of: 
1903 

150 

Sale  of— 
1898  

23 
36 
63 
79 
59 
69 
65 

46 

10 
109 

20 
51 

98 

119 
118 
14 

US 

39 
107 
123 
119 

Toles,  identification  of  Mississippi 
taws  at: 
1902  

Choc- 
24 

1899  

1900 

1901 

Topographical  township  plat: 
1899  

78 

IQflO 

1903 

Town  cemeteries: 
Establishment  of— 
1900  

38 

1904 

Unestimated  pine  — 
1904. 

Location  of— 
1900  

48 
.   .              48 

Tishomingo: 
Conference  at— 

1901  

1902  

75,  107 

1896 

1903 

85  123 

1904 

81  119 

Enrollment  of  children  at  — 
1905...                             .  . 

Reservation  for  — 
1899  

61 

Establishment  of  land  office  at  — 
1903  

1900  

40 
103 

Town  governments,  powers  of: 
1896  

Removal  of   Chickasaw   land   office 
from  — 
1905 

Town  lots: 
Advertisement  of  sale— 
1897  

13 

Reservation  for  — 
Capital  building,  Chickasaw  Na 
tion  — 
1896  

1898 

31 

1899 

41 

1900 

68 

Townsite  at— 
1896  

1901 

84 

1902                     

64 

Trial  of  citizenship  cases  at— 

1903  

74 

Tishomingo  County,  town  sites  in: 
1896  

1904  

70 

Appraisement  of— 
1896 

102  118 

Titles  to  allotments: 
Cherokee  Nation— 
1900  .... 

1897 

53 

1898 

21 

1899  

35,51,62 

1902  

1900  

..  37,47,62,74 

1903 

1901 

47,64,68,78,90 
..  58.70,74 

1904... 

1902... 

124 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Town  lots — Continued.  Page. 
Appraisement  of — 

1903 68, 80, 84 

1904 64,  76, 80 

Improvements  upon — 

1898 21 

1899 35 

1900 62 

1901 78 

1902 58 

1903 68 

1904 (5-4 

Concessions  to  owners — 

1899 52 

Disposition  of — 

1896 147, 154, 155 

Funds  derived  f  ronv  sale  of— 

1896 103 

Expense  of  appraising— 

1896 103 

Freedmen  not  entitled  to  hold  Chick- 
asaw  Nation — 

1896 119 

Improvements  not  to  be  considered  in 
appraisement  of — 

1899 6'2 

Incumbrance  of— 

1899 63 

Issuance  of  patents  for — 

1896 100, 119 

1898 22 

1899 35, 62 

1900 48 

1901 64, 69,  78 

1902 58, 97 

1903 68,113 

1904 64, 109 

Seminolc  Nation — 

1897 77 

1899 88 

1901 55 

1902 81,110 

1903 91 

1904 87 

Occupancy  by  mining  industries — 

1897 15 

1898 33 

1899 43 

1900 70 

1901 86 

1902 66 

1903 76 

1904 72 

Payment  for— 

1897 14 

1898 31 

1899 41 

1900 68 

1901 84 

1902 64 

1903 74 

1904 70 

Purchase  of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
nations — 

1897 13 

1898 30 

1899...  41 


Town  lots — Continued.  Pago. 

Purchase  of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
nations — 

1900 : 68 

1901 84 

1902 64 

1903 74 

1904 70 

Sale  of— 

1896 102, 119 

1897 13,  53,  77 

1898 21 , 30 

1899 35, 41, 52, 62, 88 

1900 37,  -17,  62,  68,  74 

1901 48, 55, 6 1 , 68,  7S,  Si,  90 

1902 58, 64,  70,  75,  SI ,  106 

1903 (58,  74,  SO,  S5, 91 , 122 

1904 64,  70,  76,  81,  S7, 118 

Taxation  of— 

1896 103 

1897 11, 54 

1898 20, 31 , 40 

1899 31,  11, 90 

1900 :J8,  47,  61, 68 

1901 48,  5S,  77, 84 

1902 57,  <il,  75, 107, 110 

1903 67,  74, 85, 1 23, 129 

1904 63, 70, XI ,  119 

Terms  of  payment — 

1896 102 

Towns: 

Condition  of — 

1894 18 

Incorporation  of — 

1896 103, 114, 132, 1 15, 155 

1897 54 

1898 19, 20 

1899 33, 63 

1900 41, 60, 74 

1901 76, 'JO 

1902 57,  71 

1903 66,81 

1904 62,  77 

Population  of— 

1894 14 

1895 70 

Rapid  growth  of — 

1895 69 

Townsend,   Hosca,   decisions  in   citizen 
ship  cases: 

1899 108 

1901 127 

Township  plat,  showing  allotment  of  land, 
Creek  Nation — 

1899 68 

Town  site,  reservation  at: 

Ada— 

1901 39 

1903..... 35 

Alabama — 

1901 39 

1903 34 

Ardmore— 

1896 102 

Wewoka — 

1897 77 

1899...  88 


THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TEIBES. 


125 


Town  site,  reservation  at— Continued.  Page, 


Wewoka— 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Aylesworth — 

1903 

Beggs— 

1901... 


Bennington— 

1903 

Blackstone — 

1901 

1903 

Blue— 

1903 

Boswell— 

1903 

Bryant  Station — 

1901 

1903 

Coalgate — 

1903 

Crowder  City— 

1903 

Fort  Gibson— 

1899 

Fort  Towson— 

1903 

Francis — 

1901 

1903 

1904 

Garvin— 


Gibson  Station— 

1901 

1903.... 

Gilbert— 

1903 

Gray— 

1901 

1903 

Haileyville— 

1903 

Hall— 

1901 

1903 

Harrington — 

1903 

Helen— 

1901 

1903 

Henryetta — 

1901 

1903. 

Hugo— 

1903 

Hunter — 

1903 

Inola— 

1901 

1903 , 

Kellyville— 

1901 

1903... 


35 


3-1 


Town  site,  reservation  at— Continued.  Page. 

Kiowa— 

1903 34 

Leliaetta— 

1901 39 

1903 34 

Madill— 

1901 39 

1903 35 

Mazie— 

1901 39 

1903 34 

Mead— 


Mounds — 

1901 

1903 

North  Coalgate— 

1903 

North  Fork— 

1903 

Okmulgee — 

1901 

1903 

Oktaha— 

1901 

1903 

Purnell— 

1903 

Kavia— 

1901 

1903 

Red  Fork— 

1901 

1903 

Roff— 

1901 

1903 

Rosed  ale— 

1901 

1903 

Ross— 

1901 

1903 

Russett— 

1903 

Seullin— 

1901 

1903 

Soper — 

1903 

South  McAlester— 

1896 

Stonewall — 

189G 

Summit — 
•   1901... 


Taneha— 

1901 

1903 

Tishomingo— 

1896 

Tulsa— 

1900 

Valliant— 

1903... 


34 


34 


35 


34 


102 


118 


118 


34 


126 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Town  site,  reservation  at— Continued.  Page. 
Wetumka— 

1901 39 

Winchell— 

1901 39 

Wapanucka — 

1903 34 

Wetumka— 

1903 34 

Wewoka,  establishment  of — 

1899 89 

1901 57 

1902 110 

1903 128 

1904 128 

Winchell— 

1903 34 

Windy  Hill— 

1903 34 

Woodville— 

1901 39 

1903 35 

Yeager — 

1901 39 

1903 34 

Town-site  act,  March- 3,  1903: 

1903 10 

Town-site  commission : 
Appointment  of — 

1897 53 

1899 61 

1900 74 

1901 64, 69, 90 

1902 70, 84, 97, 107 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1897 13 

1898..... 30 

1899 40 

1900 67 

1901 83 

1902 64 

1903 74 

1904 70 

Cherokee  Nation — 

1899 51 

.    In  Seminole  Nation— 

1899 89 

1901 57 

1902 110 

1903 128 

1904 128 

Cherokee  Nation— 

1902 105 

1903 121 

1904 115 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1902 '  97 

1903 •. 113 

1904 109 

Provision  for  appointment— 

1898 21 

1899 34 

1900 61 

1901 77 

1902 58 

1903 68 

1904....  64 


Town-site  commissioners,  appointment  of:  l';ige. 

1903 80, 100, 113,1 23 

1904 76, 96, 101),  1 1  «J 

Town-site   committees,  appointment  of, 
Cherokee  Nation: 

1899 51 

1900 37 

Town-site  fund: 

Distribution  of — 

1898 22 

1899 35, 52 

1900 62 

1901 78 

1902 58 

1903 68 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations— 

1897 14 

1898 31 

1899 41 

1900 68 

1901 X4 

1902 65 

1903 75 

1904 71 

Town-site  map  of  Indian  Territory: 

1902 162 

Town  site  plr.ts,  where  filed: 

1899 51 

1900 37, 47, 73 

1901 47,  8'J 

1902 70,74 

1903 80,  81 

1904 76, 80 

Town  sites: 

Additions  to— 

1901 64, 68 

Approval  by  Secretary  of  the  Inte 
rior— 

1896 102 

Appraisement  of — 

1899 53 

1902 84,  97 

1903 100, 113, 126 

1904 %,  109, 127 

Land  adjacent  to— 

1899 20,51,60 

Appropriation  for  establishment  of — 

1900 73 

1901 8'J 

1902 70 

1903 80 

1904 7G,  124 

Area  of,  in  Creek  Nation— 

1899 61 

Character  of — 

1894 11 

Compensation  for  improvements — 

1901 64, 68 

Condition  of  title— 

1895 70 

Distance  apart — 

1896 102 

Distance  from  cemeteries— 

1896 '      103 

Disposition  of— 

Cherokee  Nation— 

18% . . .  132 


THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


127 


Town  sites — Continued.  Page. 
Disposition  of — 

Choctaw  Nation— 

1896 97 

Creek  Nation— 

1896 115 

Desired  by  Chickasaw.s — 

1897 23 

Seminole  Nation— 

1897 72 

Establishment  of — 

1902 84 

1903 34,102 

1904 98 

Act  of  March  3,  1903— 

1904 27 

1905 61 

Cherokee  Nation — 

1902 105 

1903 121 

1904 117 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1897 13 

1898 30 

1899 40 

1900 67 

1901 64, 68, 83 

1902 64,97 

1903 74, 113 

1904 70,109 

In  Creek  Nation — 

1896 ..  145,154 


1900. 
1901. 
1902. 
1903. 
1904. 


Expense  of  appraising  and  selling— 

1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

p]xpenseof  establishment  to  be  borne 
by  United  States— 

1897 

1899 

Expense  of  platting  to  be  borne  by 
United  States— 

1897... 


54 
51,63 


1899. 


14 

31 

41 

1900 51,68 

1901 52,84 

1902 65,78 

1903 75,88 


1904 

Filing  of  plats— 

1896 

1897... 


71,84 

102 

13,54 

1»98 21,30 

35,41 

62,68 

78, 84 


1899. 
1900. 
1901. 


Town  sites — Continued.  Page. 

Filing  of  plats — 

1902 58, 64 

1903 68,  74 

1904 64, 70 

How  establish ed— 

1895 70 

Location  of  cemeteries— 

1899 52 

Panola  County,  Chickasaw  Nation— 

1896 118 

Platting  of— 

1896 102, 118 

1903 126 

1904 122 

Pontotoc  County,  Chickasaw  Nation— 

1896 H8 

Population  of — 

1900 37 

Reservation  for— 

1894 11,13,14 

1895 69 

1897 52 

1898 19 

1899 32,49,^1,63 

1900 37, 40, 59, 74 

1901 39, 75. 90 

1902 45, 55, 71, 85 

1903 65,81  101 

1904 01,7.1,  97 

Reservation,  Chickasaw  Nation — 

1896 114, »18 

Reservation  for — 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  nations — 

1902 97 

1903 113 

1904 109 

Creek  Nation— 

1894 8 

1900 49 

1901 50 

1902 , 76 

1903 CS6 

1904 82 

Sale  of— 

1899 53 

1902 97 

1903 113 

1904 109 

Survey  of— 

1896 118 

1898 21 

1899 35, 51, 53 

1900 37, 42, 47, 62 

1901 47,78 

1902 58, 74, 97 

1903 68, 84, 113, 126 

1904 61,80,105,121 

Tishomingo  County,  Chickasaw  Na 
tion — 

1896 118 

Tract  book,  form  of: 

1899 72 

Trahern,  Lula  B.,  opinion  of  citizenship 
court  in  enrollment  case  of: 
1904 , 131 


128 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Train  robberies,  frequency  of: 

1895 

Page. 
75,76 

Treaty  of  1830—  Continued. 
Provisions  of  — 

J  'age. 

1898 

1899                                                       7: 

74  1(J8 

1894 

15 

1901 

127 

Treaties: 
Effect  on  enrollment  of  citizens  — 

Rights  of  MississippiChoctawsunder  — 
1899  

73  77 

1898  

3 

Not  to  be  affected  by- 
Creek  agreement— 

With  Creek  Nation  — 
1899  

150 

1899  

65 

1901 

175 

1900  

53 

1901  

53 

1899 

CA 

1902  

80 

1903  

yo 

Treaty  of  1834: 

1904 

86 

Provisions  of  — 

1899 

109 

Cherokee  agreement— 

1901 

128 

1899 

58 

Relation  to  act  of  Congress  — 

Article  3— 
1897.   ..               

69 

1894  

30 

Relation  of,  to  laws— 

With  Creek  Nation— 
1899  

156 

1894  

48 

To  be  observed  in  the  enrollment  of 
citizens  — 

iSOfi 

83 

Treaty  of  1835  with  Cherokees: 
1897  

39 

1897 

98 

1899  

115 

1899 

67 

1901  

134 

1900  

56 

Treaty  of  1855,  provisions  of: 

1901 

189*) 

108 

1902 

52 

1901 

127 

1903 

62 

Treaty  of  1856  provisions  of' 

1904 

58 

1897                         ....                

69 

Witli  Seminoles  not  to  be  affected  by 
agreement  of  December  1G  1897  — 

Treaty  of  1866: 
1898  

13 

1897  

78 

1899  7( 

),75,]08 

1899 

88 

1901                                                                92 

127  129 

1901 

55 

1902 

122 

1902 

82 

1904 

136 

3903 

92 

Cession  of  territory  to  United  States  — 

1904 

88 

1894              .        

50,  51 

Treatment  of  freedmen: 
1894 

19  24 

Construction  of   article  9,   Cherokee 
freedmen  — 

1904  

166 

Treaty  of  1785  with  Cherokees: 
1899  

114 

Nonfulfillment  of,  as  to  freedmen— 

1901  

133 

Treaty  of  1791  with  Cherokees: 

Provisions  as  to  Cherokee  freedmen  — 
1894                                      

26,  -17 

1899  

114 

1901  

132 

1891 

'*(>  47 

Treaty  of  1819  with  Cherokees: 
1899 

115 

Provisions  as  to  Semiiiole  freedmen— 
1894 

•17 

1901  

134 

Settlement  of  claims  under  — 

Treaty  of  1820  provisions  or 

1^99                           

04 

1899 

108 

Stipulations  concerning  Choctaw  and 

1901 

127 

Chickasaw  freedmen  — 

Treaty  of  1828  with  Cherokees' 

1899     

14 

1899 

115 

With  Cherokees  — 

1901 

134 

1899 

IKS,  167 

Treaty  of  1830' 

1901 

137  186 

1901 

20 

Witli   Choctaw   and    Chickasaw  IIM- 

Compliance  with  article  14  essential 

tions  — 
1894 

36 

1902  

28 

Treaty  of  Dancing  Rabbit  Creek: 

Object  of 

1898                             

10 

1899 

93 

1899                

74,78 

1901... 

112 

1901... 

20 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


129 


Treaty  of  New  Echota: 
1899             

Page. 
96,  115 

Tribal  elections: 
1895  

Page. 

65  87 

1901 

134 

Tribal  funds' 

Treaty  provisions  superseded  by  agree 
ment  approved  July  1  1902' 

Distribution  of— 
1896. 

114 

1902                                        

100 

1897.   . 

17  97 

1903                      

115 

1898  8  23 

25  35 

1904     i  

112 

1899  36,37 

,44  66 

Treaty  stipulation: 

1900  55,  63 

,  64,  71 

Disregarded  by  Indians  — 

1901                                                    71  79 

80  87 

1894 

17 

1902                                                    51  59 

61  67 

Insufficiency  of  law  for  fulfilling  in 

1903                                                    61  69 

71  77 

Choctaw  freedmen  — 

1904...                    .       ..                  57,65 

67  73 

1894.              

29 

Act  of  Choctaw  council  — 

Treaty    wrongs,    power   of   Congress   to 

1895  

88 

remedy: 

1894 

48 

Cherokee  Nation— 
1894 

11 

Trials  in  contest  cases' 

1896 

132 

1899                    .   . 

86 

1900  

42 

1901                          .     .. 

101 

In  Chickasaw  Nation  — 

1902.               

113 

1894  

10 

1903  

165 

1896  

120 

1904 

199 

Choctaw  Nation  — 

Tribal  court  abolition  of' 

1896 

97 

1897 

39 

Choctaw     and     Chickasaw     na 

.  1898 

8  26 

tions  — 

1899                     ....                        .     .     . 

38  168 

1902... 

100 

1900  

43  65 

1903  

116 

1901  

81 

1904  

112 

1902  

61 

Creek  Nation  — 

1903 

71 

1897 

51 

1904 

67 

1899 

59  65 

Tribal  courts* 

1900 

50 

Corruption  of  — 

1901  .. 

51 

1897        

41 

1902  

78 

Jurisdiction  of  — 

1903  

88 

1895         

75 

1904  

84 

1897  

54  88 

Seminole  Nation  — 

Over  guardians  — 

1894  

13 

1904  

44 

1897  

72,78 

Transferred  to  United  States  — 

1899 

88 

1896                                97  114  132 

145  155 

1901 

55 

1897          

91  99 

1902  . 

81 

1899  

68 

1903  

91 

1900  

57 

1904  

87 

1901  

73 

1902  

53 

1894 

IS 

1903 

63 

1904 

59 

Investment  of  — 

1896 

105 

Seminole  Nation,  jurisdiction  of  — 

1897  

17 

1897  

78 

1898  

35 

1899  

88 

1899  

44 

1901  

55 

1900  

71 

1901 

87 

1903 

92 

1902 

67 

1904 

88 

1903                

77 

Weakness  of  — 

1904  

73 

1894  

17 

189,")  

75 

In  possession  of  United  States  Gov 

Tribal  court-houses,  reservations  for: 
1902 

ernment,  statement  of  — 
1901  

217 

1903  

108 

Right  of  Cherokee  f  reodmen  to  share  — 

1904  

104 

1899  

70 

Tribal  customs  to  be  respected  in  deter 

1901  

92 

mination  of  citizenship* 

1903 

130 

3896... 

83 

1904... 

136 

15013- 


130 


THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Tribal  funds  —  Continued. 
Right   of   Choctaw   and    Chickasaw 
freedmen  to  share  in  — 
1894  

Page. 

27 
55 

10 
14,  132 
27 

55 
42 
100 
124 

16 
34 

44 
71 
87 
67 
77 
73 

9 
145 

64 

18 
126 
31,121 

17 

,  75,  78 
162 
181 

17,20 
68 

60 
5 
C9 
105 

16 
34 
43 
.      70 
86 
67 
77 
73 

87 

3 
113 

Tribal  laws—  Continued. 
Not  to  be  enforced  in  United  States 
court— 
1898  .... 

Page. 

26 
38,168 
65 
81 
61 
71 
67 

16 

1(5,34 
44 

71 
87 
67 
77 
73 

43,  52 
53 
80 
90 
73,86 

83 
98 
67 
56 
72 
59 

To  be  paid  into  United  States  Treas 
ury— 
1897 

1899  

1900  

1901 

Tribal  government: 
Dissolution  of  — 
1894 

1902 

1903 

1904 

1896                                              97  105  1 

Not  to  conflict  with  Constitution  of 
United  States— 
1894  

1899 

Cherokee  — 
1899 

Publication  of— 
1898  

1900  . 

1902. 

1899  

1903  .   . 

1900  

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  — 
1897. 

1901  

1902  

1893 

1903 

1899 

1904 

1900  

Subject  to  Presidential  approval  — 
1900      .  . 

1901 

1909 

1901 

1903 

1902.            

1904 

1903  

Creek— 
1894 

1904  

To    be   respected   in    enrollment   of 
citizens— 
1896 

1896 

1899 

Seminole  — 
1894 

1897 

1899 

1903 

1900                 ... 

1904 

1901  

Corruption  of— 
1894 

190° 

1903  

62 

58 

113 

99 

f  7 

1895                                                         69 

1904 

1899 

With  respect  to  mining— 
1896  

1901 

Failure  of— 
1894                        

Tribal  leases,  Commission  authorized  to 
investigate: 
1897           

1895 

Impossibility  of  continuance  — 
1895 

icqq 

1900 

56 
72 
53 
63 
59 

105 

105 
91,  100 
8,34 
43,68 
57,  70 
.  86,  91 
,  67,  71 
,  77,  81 
,73,77 

8 
125 

Inadequacy  of— 
1905 

1901 

1992                                -   .   . 

Integrity  of,  guaranteed— 
1897 

1903                 

1904              

Legal  proceedings  against— 
1896                    

Tribal  legislation: 
Publication  of— 
1896 

Legislation  against  — 
1897  

To   be    subject   to    Presidential    ap 
proval  — 
1896  

1898  

1900 

1897  16,  55,  72,  88, 
1898                                

1901  

1902  

1903  

1904  

1  qn<}                                                               54 

Perpetuation  of— 
1895  

1903                64 

*        1904                                                            60 

Tribal  laws: 
Effect  on  enrollment  of  citizens  — 
1898                    .   .     . 

Tribal  officials,  assistance  rendered  by: 

1898 

Tribal  property  : 
Leasing  of  Cherokee  Nation— 
1896...                          

Governing  leases— 
1896... 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TEIBES. 


131 


Tribal  property—  Continued. 
Right  of  Mississippi  Choctaws  to  share 
in  — 
1901  

Page. 
21 

Tulsa: 
Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at  — 

Page. 

Tribal  rolls: 

1905  

64  65 

Confirmation  of  — 
1896  

83 

Establishment  of  United  States  court 

1897  

98 

1899 

1899 

67 

1900 

56 

1901  

72 

1905 

1902.   . 

52 

1903  

62 

1899 

1904  

58 

1900 

Corruption  of  — 
1895  

73 

Tuskahoma: 
Conference  at  — 

1898  

4 

1894  

9 

1900  

13  21 

1895  

62  66 

1904 

9 

1896 

95 

Difficulties  in  obtaining— 

1897  

7 

1900 

19 

Enrollment  of  children  at 

Fraud  in  preparation  of  — 

1905 

20 

1902  

11 

Tuskahoma  Female  Seminary    reserva 

Inaccuracy  of  — 
1902  

11 

tion  for: 
1896  

101 

Of  Seminole  Nation,  requested  — 

1897  

11 

1897  

73 

1898  

27 

To  be  given  due  force  and  effect  in 

1899 

39 

preparation  of  final  rolls  — 

1900  ... 

66 

1897 

98 

1901.. 

82 

1899 

67 

1902. 

62  92 

1900  . 

56 

1903  

72  108 

1901  

72 

1904  

68  104 

1902  

52 

Tuskaloosa  Academy  reservation  for- 

•     1903  

62 

1896  

101 

1904  

58 

Unallotted  lands,  disposition  of- 

To  be  respected  in  determination  of 

1897  

97 

citizenship  — 

1899 

66 

18% 

83 

1900 

55 

Unreliability  of  — 

1901  

71 

1897. 

93 

1902  

51 

1903  

61 

1904  

57 

1896  

104 

Unimproved    lands,    in     contest    cases, 

For  tribal  property— 

1896 

award  of: 
1903  

160 

Term  of  office— 
1896  

104 

United  States  citizenship: 
Conferred  on— 

Tucker,  Harrison  v.,  decision  of  Commis 

Cherokees— 
1899  

58 

sion  in  contest  case  of: 
1901  

41 

Choctaws  and  Chickasaws— 

Tucker,  Wm.  N.,  decision  of  United  States 

1897 

106 
17 

court  in  citizenship  case: 

1898  .  . 

36 

1899  

106 

1899 

1901  

125 

1900 

Tucker  v.  Jamison,  contest  case  of' 

1901  

87 

1902                                                        126  1 

or)  -IAF. 

1902 

68 

1903  

78 

1904 

1904  

74 

Tuttle,  Brown  v.,  contest  case  of: 

Creeks— 
1897. 

55 

1903  

149 

Tuttle,  segregation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 
1905  

64 

United    States   commissioner   to   be   lo 
cated  at: 
Claremore  — 
1899.... 

67 

132 


THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


United  States  commissioner  to  be  located 
at  —  Continued. 
Fairland  — 

1899 

Page. 

57 
57 
57 

57 
57 

81,83 
69 
72 
88 
16,69 
79 
75 

89 

35 

44 
71 

87 
68 

78 

74 

91 
15 
61,110 
16,93 
108 
105 

15 
77,92 
111 

99 
118 

98 
117 

147 
166 

105 

124 

100 

106 
125 

156 

175 

United  States  court—  Continued. 
Establishment  of  — 
In  Indian  Territory  — 
1895 

Page. 

72 

Nowata— 
1899                                    ..  -. 

1899  

163 

1901 

181 

Sallisaw— 
1899                .  :  

At  Claremore— 
1899 

57 

Tahlequah— 
1899 

Establishment,  at  Wewoka  — 

1897 

Vinita— 
1899                                             

Extension  of  jurisdiction  — 
1896 

..   114,145 
54  91  99 

United  States  court: 
Appeal  to,  in  citizenship  cases  — 
1896  

1897  

1898  

8  16  96 

1899                                   31  38  68  ] 

64,  165,  166 

.  57,58,65- 
83,  184,  185 
53  54  61 

1899  

1900 

1900 

1901                                     73  74  81 

1901  

1902  . 

1902  

1903...     . 

63  64  71 

1903 

1904 

59  60  67 

1904                                           

Recommended— 
1895  

78 

Authority   to    compel   allotment   of 
land— 

1897 

Finality  of  decision  — 
1905  

13 

Decision,  in   case   of    Choctaw   and 
Chickasaw  nations  v.  United  States 
and  Wichita  Indians— 

Injunction,  enrollment  of  Cherokee 
freedmen  — 
1902...                                                           no 

1903  

..     27,136 

1904  

.     24,142 

1900 

Invalidity  of  decisions,  in  citizenship 
cases— 
1901                                                         fifi  fi? 

1901                                      

1902                               

Jurisdiction,  in  citizenship  cases  — 
1897  

99 

1903 

Decision,  in  citizenship  cases  — 
1899  

1899  

•67  198 

1900  

56 

1901                                                  &2 

,66,72,147 
52 

1900  

1902 

1901  

1902  

1004 

1903  

1905 

1904 

Jurisdiction,  in  municipalities  — 
1898. 

21 

Decision,  in  citizenship  case  of  Jack 
Amos  et  al.  — 
1898  

1899  

31 

1900  

61 

1899  

1901  

77 

1901 

1902 

57 

S.  J.  Cundiff— 
1899 

1903 

67 

1904 

63 

1901 

Jurisdiction  of  — 
1895        

75 

E.  J.  Home  — 
1899  .       

1896  

97,  104,  132 
16  88 

1901 

1897 

Caleb  W.  Hubbard  et  al.— 
1899 

1898 

33 

1899                              

.  28,43,63 

70 
86 

1901 

1900              

3T.  R.  Robinson  — 

1899 

1901  

1902 

66 

1901 

1903 

76 

W.  S.  Senter— 
1899 

1904                       

72 

In  enforcement  of  tribal  laws— 
1898 

26 

1901 

Wm.  N.  Tucker— 
1899 

1899 

38,  168 

1900 

65 

1901 

1901  

81 

Decision,  in  Creek  citizenship  cases  — 
1899 

1902 

61 

1903  

71 

1901... 

1904... 

67 

THE   FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


133 


United  States  court— Continued. 
Jurisdiction  of — 

Seminole  Nation— 
1897... 


1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Sulphur  Springs  Reservation — 

1902 

1903 

1904 

Jurisdiction  over- 
Bribery— 

1897 

1899 

Embezzlement — 

1897 

1899 

Embracery— 

1897 

1899 

Homicide — 

1899 

Real  estate — 

1897 

1899 

Mandamus    proceedings   for   enroll 
ment  of  Cherokee  freedmen — 

1897 

Objection  of   Cherokees  to  jurisdic 
tion  being  extended— 

1897 

Opinion  in  citizenship  case  by  William 
J.  Watts— 


1901 

Plats  for  town  sites  to  be  filed  with — 

1896 ... 

Review    of   decisions  by  citizenship 
court — 

1904 

Suspension  of  jurisdiction— 

1838 

To  record  Cherokee  patents — 

1900 

To  record  Seminole  leases — 

1897 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

United     States    court    claimants,    mes 
sage  of: 
Green  McCurtain— 

1901 

Governor  Johnson — 

1901 

United  States  Government,  statement  of 
tribal  funds  in  possession  of: 

1901 

United  States  Indian  agent,  data  required 
concerning  enrollment  of  Creeks: 
1904... 


Page. 


100 
114 
112 


93 
38 
133 

102 

12 

4 

43 

77 
54 
81 
91 

87 

215 
209 

217 
22 


United  States  laws  not  to  be  interfered     Ptge. 
with  by  municipal  ordinances: 

1897 14 

1898 31 

1899 41 

1900 68 

.      1901 84 

1902 65 

1903 75 

1904 71 

Usurpation     of    authority    by    Choctaw 
Nation: 

1896 120 

Validity  of  allotment,  Cherokee  Nation: 

1904 124 

Valley,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at: 

1905 64 

Valliant,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1903 34 

Vance,  Sorrel  r.,  contest  case  of: 

1903 148 

Van  Deventer,  William,  opinion,  act  of 
May  31,  1900: 

1901 208 

Van  Deventer,  opinion,  rights  of  Choctaw 
and  Chickasaw  freedmen: 

1901 206 

Vann,  G.  W.,  improperly  placed  on  Kern- 
Clifton  roll: 

1897 29 

Vaughn,  Benjamin  J.,  decision  of  Depart 
ment,  enrollment  case  of: 

1905 14 

Vegetables,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 106 

Vera,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at: 

1905 64 

Verbal  transfer  of  improvements,  contest 
cases: 

1903 160 

Verification  of  complaint  in  contest  cases: 

1902 161 

Vian,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1902 30 

Vilas,  William  F. ,  report  concerning  freed 
men: 

1894 40, 45 

Vinegar,  amount  allowed  field  parties: 

1901 106 

Vinita: 

Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 
poses  at — 

1905 64 

Conference  with  Cherokees  at— 

1896 115, 131, 136 

Enrollment  of — 
Cherokees  at — 

1900 25 

1901 23 

Cherokee  freedmen  at — 

1902 33 

Establishment  of — 
Fair  grounds  at — 

1900...  42 


134 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


Vinita—  Continued. 
Establishment  of  — 
Land  office  at  — 
1903 

Page. 

41 

Wallace  roll: 
Of  Cherokee  freedmen  — 
Amendments  by  Secretary  of  In 
terior  • 

Page. 

Headquarters  at  — 

1897  

85 

1895                                                  .  . 

84 

Confirmation  of  — 

1896  

131 

1902 

122 

Removal  of  headquarters  from  — 

1903  

134 

1895 

88 

1904 

140 

United    States   commissioner    to  be 
located  at  — 

Incorrectness  of  — 
1897 

83 

1899  

57 

Revision  of  — 

Violation  of  treaties  by  Indians: 

1894  

11 

1894 

17 

Voters: 

1897  

85 

Qualification  of— 
1896 

155 

Unlawful    enrollment   of    Cherokee 

1898  

20,26 

1899                                                 34  I 

18,63  65 

1900  

61,65 

1901  

77,81 

1902  

57,61 

Wann,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 

1903 

67  71 

purposes  at: 

1905 

64 

1904 

63  67 

Municipal  elections  — 
1899 

c.0 

Wapan\icka,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1903  

34 

Qualifications,  ratification  of  — 

Wapanucka  Institute,  reservation  for: 
1896  

119 

1900.. 

44 

Washington  • 

1902. 

109 

Conference  at  — 

1903  

125 

1895 

59 

1904 

121 

1900 

11 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw    agree 

1901  

60 

ment— 
1901 

65  70 

Conference  with  Chickasaws  at— 
1896 

117 

1902 

61  100 

1903  

116 

1902 

86 

1901  

112 

1903 

102 

Vouchers  form  of  • 

1904 

qg 

1901 

105  106 

Wads  worth,  McNac  v.,  decision  of  Depart 

1902  

86 

ment  in  contest  case  of: 

1903  

102 

1902  

48 

Wagons,  purchase  of: 
1899 

12 

Washington,  Willie,  enrollment  of: 

1902  

86 

Wagon  grease  for  field  parties: 

1903 

102 

1901 

105 

1904 

98 

Wagoner: 
Enrollment  of  Creeks  at  — 
1897  

64 

Waters,  Tekinney: 
Appointed  Cherokee  commissioner— 

1896 

127 

1899  

61 

Letter  to  Commission  — 

1900 

46 

October  28,  1897— 

1897  

38 

1903              .   . 

143  152 

December  17,  1896— 

1896 

135 

1903  

150 

Water,  quality  and  quantity  of:' 

Walker,  T.  C.: 

1894  

15 

Letter  to  Commission  — 
1896  

117 

Waterworks,  provision  for: 
1899 

63 

Memorial  to  Congress  — 

1900 

41  49 

1897  

21 

50 

Wallace,  John  W.    appointed  agent  to 

1902                                  .             .... 

77,98 

make  roll  of  Cherokee  freedmen: 

1903  

87,  114 

1897.  .  . 

85 

1904... 

83,110 

THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TRIBES. 


135 


Watts,  William  J.,  etal.: 
Motion  for  rehearing  in  citizenship 
case  of  — 

Page. 

Wetumka  —  Continued. 
Mission,  reservation  for  — 
1897  

Page. 
52 

1899  

142 

Wewoka: 

1901 

161 

Act  providing  for  town  site  at 

Opinion  of  United  States  court  in  citi 

1901  

57 

zenship  case  of  — 

1902 

110 

1899  

133 

1903.. 

128 

1901  

152 

1904  

128 

Wauhillau,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at— 
1902 

30 

Closing  of  land  office  at— 
1902 

43 

Waurika,  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 
purposes  at' 

Conference  with  Seminoles  at— 
1894 

12 

1905       

64 

1896     . 

169 

Wayne,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 

1897  

71 

1896 

118 

Enrollment  of 

Weakness  of  tribal  courts: 
1894 

17 

Children  at— 
1905 

33 

1895                                         ..   . 

74 

Seminoles  at  — 

Wealaka  boarding  school,  reservation  for: 

1900 

12 

1899  

61 

1901  '.. 

30 

1900  

49 

Establishment  of  — 

1901 

50 

Land  office  at 

1902 

77 

1901 

31 

1903 

87 

1904 

31 

1904                                                    ..   . 

83 

Municipal  government  at  — 

WTealaka  Mission,  reservation  for: 

1899 

90 

1897.                           

52 

1901     

58 

Weaver,  Walter  L.,  opinion  in  citizenship 

1902  

111 

case: 

1903  

129 

1904  

130 

1904  

129 

Welch,  enrollment  cl  Cherokees  at: 
1900 

25 

Seminole  land  office  at— 
1905 

53 

Welcomie,   Lemuel,  decision  of  Depart 
ment  enrollment  case  of' 

Town  site  at— 
1897 

77 

1905 

26 

1899  

89 

Weleetka  alienation  of  land  for  town-site 

1901  

55 

purposes  at: 

1902  

81 

1904  

29 

1903  

91 

1905 

64 

1904 

87 

Wellington,  enrollment  of  Creeks  at: 
1897 

57 

United  States  court  at— 
1897                     ,              .... 

72 

West,    Lula,   assistant   attorney-general, 
enrollment  case  of: 

Municipal  election  at  — 
1899      

90 

1905  

15 

1901  

58 

Wrestville,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 

1902  

111 

1900 

25 

1903 

129 

1901 

23 

1904 

129 

Wetumka: 

Alienation  of  land  for  town-site  pur 

Reservation  for  public  buildings  at  — 
1899  

89 

poses  at  — 

1901  

57 

1904 

29 

1909 

110 

1905 

64 

1903 

128 

Boarding  school  reservation  for  — 

1901                     

128 

1899 

61 

Seminole  leases  to  be  recorded  at  — 

1900 

49 

1897 

78 

1901 

50 

1901 

54 

1902 

77 

1902 

81 

1903 

87 

1903                   

91 

1904 

83 

1904  

87 

Enrollment  of  Creeks  at  — 
1897 

64 

Taxation  of  town  lots  at— 
1899 

90 

1902 

36 

1901 

58 

Reservation  of  town  site  at  — 

1902              

111 

1901.                   .              

39 

1903  

129 

1903... 

34 

1904... 

129 

136 


THE    FIVE    CIVILIZED    TKIBES. 


Wheelock  Orphan  Seminary,  reservation 
for:  ' 
1896 

Page. 

101 
11 
27 
39 
66 
82 
62,92 
72,  107 
68,  104 

71 

77 

17 

88 
9 

30 

72 
94 
133 
139 

29 

70 
92 
122 
130 
136 

35 
44 
71 

87 
68 
78 
74 

51 

171 
190 

34 

54 
42 
103 
119 
115 

99 

68 

Willie,   F.   E.,   reimbursement    for  serv 
ices  —  Continued. 
1900 

Page. 

57 
73 
53 
63 
59 

39 
34 

34 

40 
20 

83 
98 
25 
37,67 
56,64 
72,80 
52,60 
62,70 
58,66 

87 
102 
114 
16i> 
199 

76 

10 

54 

39 
35 

118 

39 
34 

24 
25 

24 
25 

93 

27 
30 

1897  

1901. 

1898  

1902  

1899 

1903 

1900 

1904 

1901                                                   

Winchell,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1901  

1902  

1903  

1903  

1904 

Windy  Hill,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1903 

White  persons  in  Indian  Territory: 
Condition  of— 

1895 

Wisdom,    Dew    M.,    report    concerning 
Chickasaw  and  Cherokee  freedmen: 
1894  

Duty  of  United  States  Government 
toward  — 
1895 

Wister,  enrollment  of  children  at: 
1905  

Number  of— 
1894  

Witnesses: 
Commission  to  compel  attendance  — 
1896  

1897 

1898 

1897  

Whitmire,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
190° 

1898  

1899  

Whitmire,  Mo?es: 
Fee  in  Cherokee  freedmen  case  — 
18S9  

1900 

1901. 

1902  

1903  

1901  

1904  

1%4 

In  contest  cases— 
1899 

Improperly  omitted  from  Kern-Clif 
ton  roll  — 
1897.                                 

1901 

1902.. 

1903  

Suit  v.  Cherokee  Nation— 
1899  

1904  

Intimidation  of,  in  criminal  cases— 

1901  

1902 

Wolf,  Hon.  Jonas,  suggests  conference  with 
Chickasaws: 
1894  

1903 

1904 

Wichita  Indians: 
Claims  of    Choctaw  and  Chickasaw 
nations  against  — 
1898  

Woodmount  Mission,  reservation  for: 
1899  

Woodville.  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1901 

1899  

1903 

1900  

Wynwood,  reservation  for  town  site  at. 
1896 

1901  

1902 

\eager  reservation  for  town  site  at. 
1901 

1903  

1904  

1903 

Settlement  on  leased  districts— 
1894  

Yeargain;  Joseph  D.,  et  ai.<  decision  in 
enrollment  case  of: 
1903  

Wiggs,  Richard  C.,  etal.,  opinion  of  Su 
preme  Court  in  citizenship  case  of: 
1899 

1904 

Yeargain    Scott  A  ,  et  ai..  decision  in  en 
rollment  case  of. 
1903  

1901 

Wild  Horse,  reservation  for  town  site  at: 
1903                             .... 

190-1.  

Willie  Halsell  College,  reservation  for: 
1899  

Yellow  fever  quarantine,  delay  in  inves 
tigation  of  Mississippi  Choctaw  claims 
caused  by:                                               i 
1897  

1900 

1902 

1903       

York,  Thomas,  decision  in  enrollment  case 
of: 
1903 

1904  

Willie,  F.  E.,  reimbursement  for  services: 
1897               

Zena,  enrollment  of  Cherokees  at: 
1902... 

1899... 

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